Flen Municipality () is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in central
Södermanland County
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in southeast
Sweden
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. Its seat is located in the
city
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of
Flen.
The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the
amalgamation of the ''City of Flen'' (instituted in 1949), the market town (''
köping'')
Malmköping and the surrounding countryside, including a southeastern portion of the former
Oppunda hundred that was split between Flen and
Nyköping municipalities. It also includes all of the former
Villåttinge hundred.
Geography
Flen Municipality is a lowland inland municipality that falls to above sea level on the lakes of
Långhalsen and Torpfjärden in the southeastern area. The highest peak is at on the tripoint between Flen,
Gnesta
Gnesta () is a bimunicipal Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Gnesta Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 6,376 inhabitants in 2020.
Gnesta is located in Södermanland, on the border to Stockholm County. As situated near t ...
and
Strängnäs municipalities.
Localities
Figures from
Statistics Sweden
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* developin ...
, 2004.
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Flen 6,107
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Malmköping 2,006
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Hälleforsnäs 1,737
*
Sparreholm 799
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Skebokvarn 225
*
Mellösa 549
*
Bettna 410
*Vadsbro 118
Of these places, Malmköping, located about 15 km north of Flen, surpasses Flen as a tourism attraction due to its two annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (became a ''köping'') already in 1785.
Elections
The following results are since the 1972 municipal reform onwards.
Riksdag
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Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Flen Municipality's electoral districts in the
2022 Swedish general election sourced from
SVT's election platform, in turn taken from
SCB official statistics.
Flen is a poor municipality by lower Svealand standards.
[ As of 2022 it was a rather segregated municipality with very high levels of ethnic minority populations concentrated south of the railway, while people of Swedish background are in a sizeable majority in the outer parts of town and in the countryside. Every district was beneath the median income of its southern neighbour Nyköping.][ The political demographics were 50.4 % for the left bloc and 48.4 % for the right bloc, with the left dominating the town and the right sizeably winning the villages and countryside.][ No district reached 35% college graduates and unemployment was high throughout much of the municipality.][ Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
]
Sister City
* Vareš, Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
External links
Flen Municipality
- Official site
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Municipalities of Södermanland County