Karlskrona 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' ...

Blekinge County Blekinge County () is a county or '' län'' in the south of Sweden. It borders the Counties of Skåne Scania ( ), also known by its native name of Skåne (), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces () of Sweden ...

South Sweden South Sweden () is a national area () of Sweden. The national areas are a part of the NUTS statistical regions of Sweden. Geography South Sweden is situated in the southern part of its country. It is close to Denmark and it borders with the of ...

in southern

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. It borders to

Emmaboda Municipality Emmaboda Municipality () is a municipality in Kalmar County, in south-eastern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Emmaboda. The present municipality was formed in 1971, when the market town (''köping'') of Emmaboda (itself instituted in 193 ...

Torsås Municipality Torsås Municipality () is the southernmost municipality of Kalmar County, Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Torsås. The present municipality was created in 1971, when "old" Torsås was merged with Söderåkra. Geography The geography ...

and

Ronneby Municipality Ronneby Municipality () is a municipality in Blekinge County in South Sweden in southern Sweden. It borders to Tingsryd Municipality, Emmaboda Municipality, Karlskrona Municipality and Karlshamn Municipality. The town of Ronneby is the seat ...

. The city of

Karlskrona Karlskrona (, , ) is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with a population of 66,675 in 2018. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to ...

is the seat of the municipality. Like most Swedish municipalities it was created during the municipal reform in the early seventies, combining several earlier local government units of urban and rural type, among them the ''City of Karlskrona''.

Localities

There are 18

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(also called a Tätort or locality) in Karlskrona Municipality. In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Karlskrona 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 66,647 residents, including 50,805 Swedish citizens of voting age. 45.2 % voted for the left coalition and 53.5 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Parishes

Parishes ordered by

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and hundreds: #

#* Karlskrona City Parish #*

Royal Karlskrona Admiralty Parish The Royal Karlskrona Admiralty Parish () in Karlskrona, Sweden, is a non-territorial Lutheran parish for navy personnel and their families, which has existed in Karlskrona since 1685. Its church is the wooden "Admiralty Church" (''Ulrica Pia'') bu ...

# Eastern Hundred #* Augerum Parish #* Flymen Parish #*

Jämjö Parish Jämjö is a locality situated in Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 2,578 inhabitants in 2010. Sports The following sports clubs are located in Jämjö: * Jämjö GoIF Jämjö GoIF is a Sweden, Swedish Association football ...

#* Kristianopel Parish #* Lösen Parish #* Ramdala Parish #* Rödeby Parish #* Sturkö Parish #* Torhamn Parish #* Virserum Parish #

Medelstad Hundred A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in northern Germanic countries and related colonies, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions. The equivalent term in Swedish is (in Uppland also ...

#* Aspö Parish #* Fridlevstad Parish #* Hasslö Parish #* Nättraby Parish #* Sillhövda Parish #* Tving Parish #* Hästö

International relations

Twin towns - sister cities

Karlskrona is twinned with: *

Ólafsfjörður Ólafsfjörður () is a town in the northeast of Iceland located at the mouth of the fjord Eyjafjörður. The town is connected to Dalvík on Eyjafjörður by the 3.5 km one-lane Múli tunnel (the ''Múlagöng'') and to Siglufjörður by the ...

, Iceland *

Aizpute Aizpute (; historically Polish language, Polish: ''Hazenpot'') is a town in South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia, in the valley of the Tebra River, situated northeast of Liepāja. History The territory of modern Aizpute ...

, Latvia *

Gdynia Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...

, Poland *

Hillerød Hillerød () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 36,604 (1 January 2025)Horten Horten () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Jarlsberg. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Horten (town) ...

, Norway *

Klaipėda Klaipėda ( ; ) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the List of cities in Lithuania, third-largest city in Lithuania, the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, fifth-largest city in the Baltic States, and the capi ...

, Lithuania *

Loviisa Loviisa (; ; formerly Degerby) is a town in Finland, located on the southern coast of the country. Loviisa is situated in the eastern part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Loviisa is approximately , while the Loviisa sub-region, sub-regi ...

, Finland *

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

, Germany

Villages

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Karlskrona Municipality
- Official site
Mitt Karlskrona
- Swedish Karlskrona city guide

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