Kalmar Municipality () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in Kalmar County, southeastern

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. The city of Kalmar is the municipal seat. The present municipality was created in 1971, when the ''City of Kalmar'' was amalgamated with five surrounding rural municipalities. The municipality consists of fifteen original local government units.

Localities

There are 16

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s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Kalmar Municipality. Kalmar castle 191027

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2019. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Kalmar Municipality's electoral districts in the

2022 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 11 September 2022 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag who in turn elected the Prime Minister of Sweden. Under the constitution, regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The pr ...

sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 54,430 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 48.4 % voted for the left coalition and 50.5 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Kalmar is twinned with: *

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''(since 1991)'' * Kaliningrad,

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* Wilmington,

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References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Kalmar Municipality
- Official site
University of Kalmar
Municipalities of Kalmar County Long stubs with short prose {{Kalmar-geo-stub