Vetlanda Municipality

Also known as Vetlanda kommun

municipality in Jönköping County, Sweden

Key facts

Country: Sweden
County: Jönköping County
Seat: Vetlanda
Total: 1,600.43 km (617.93 sq mi)
Land: 1,500.51 km (579.35 sq mi)
Water: 99.92 km (38.58 sq mi)
Density: 18.302/km (47.401/sq mi)
Time zone: UTC+1 ( CET )
Summer dst: UTC+2 ( CEST )
Iso 3166 code: SE
Province: Småland
Municipal code: 0685
Website: www.vetlanda.se

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Vetlanda Municipality (Swedish: Vetlanda kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden. The town of Vetlanda is the municipality's seat.

The municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Vetlanda (instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form a unitary municipality. When Sweden's first local government laws went into effect in 1863, there were more than 20 entities located within the current municipality's boundaries.