Norrköping Municipality () is a municipality in Östergötland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Norrköping, with some 90,000 inhabitants. It is the largest municipality in Östergötland.

By the time of the local government reform of 1971 the City of Norrköping was amalgamated with the rural municipality of Skärblacka forming a new municipality of unitary type. In 1974 Vikbolandet was added. The number of original local government units (as of 1863) which are in the present municipality is 26.

Localities

Places with more than 200 inhabitants as of 2000:

  • Herstadberg
  • Jursla
  • Kimstad
  • Krokek
  • Lindö
  • Ljunga
  • Loddby
  • Norrköping (seat)
  • Norsholm
  • Simonstorp
  • Skärblacka
  • Strömsfors
  • Svärtinge
  • Vånga
  • Åby
  • Åselstad
  • Öbonäs
  • Östra Husby

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Norrköping Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

In total there were 108,530 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. When the Civil Aviation Administration existed, its head office was in Norrköping.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Norrköping is twinned with:

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  • Esslingen, Germany
  • Klaksvík, Faroe Islands
  • Kópavogur, Iceland
  • Linz, Austria

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  • Odense Municipality, Denmark
  • Riga, Latvia
  • Tampere, Finland
  • Trondheim, Norway <small>(since 1946)</small>

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See also

  • Köping (concept)
  • Nävsjön
  • Å, Sweden

References