Gothenburg Municipality facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Gothenburg Municipality Göteborgs kommun
Municipality
Gothenburg City Hall
Coat of arms
Country	Sweden
County	Västra Götaland County
Seat	Gothenburg
	Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population  (May 2023)
• Total	600,559
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Västergötland and Bohuslän
Municipal code	1480
Website

Gothenburg fish market

Gothenburg Municipality (Göteborgs kommun or Göteborgs stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg.

When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founded and chartered in 1621, became a city municipality with an elected city council (stadsfullmäktige). Its territory has since then been added through amalgamations in 1868, 1906, 1922, 1931, 1945, 1948, 1967 and 1974. The local government reform of 1971 made the city a unitary municipality, like all others in the country. The municipality prefers, however, to style itself Göteborgs stad (City of Göteborg), whenever legally possible.

In March 2018 it was reported that the municipality and municipality-owned companies had 236 employees working with public relations (Swedish: kommunikation), more than Stockholm, to a cost of 400 000 SEK daily or 151 million SEK annually.

Localities

The major part of the Gothenburg urban area (Göteborgs tätort) is situated within the municipality, but there are also some other localities as well as rural areas.

• Billdal (part of)
• Donsö
• Hjuvik
• Nolvik
• Olofstorp
• Styrsö
• Torslanda
• Vrångö

Boroughs

In 1990 the municipality was subdivided into 21 stadsdelsnämnder (district boards), sometimes translated to boroughs, which they really are not. In 2009 the two district boards of Frölunda and Högsbo were joined. It has been decided that from the start of 2011 many more will be joined leaving 10 new district boards.

The boards carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure, and cultural services within their respective areas. In the election of 1998 three boroughs (Askim, Torslanda and Älvsborg) held local referendums on forming their own municipalities, but their petitions were rejected by the government of Sweden.

Boroughs:

International cooperation

• Twin towns:
  • Bergen, Norway
  • Turku, Finland
  • Aarhus, Denmark
• Partner cities:
  • Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
  • Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Lyon, France

The cooperation with the South African Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (established in 1998) is a partnership fostering development of common fields of interest such as solid waste management, public libraries, sport and tourism. Gothenburg had signed an agreement with Shanghai in 1986 which was upgraded in 2003 to include exchanges in culture, economics, trade and sport. However, the agreement was allowed to lapse in 2020.

• Sister cities:
  • Chicago, United States (since 1987)
  • Kraków, Poland
  • Tallinn, Estonia
  • Rostock, Germany
• Regional:
  • Oslo, Norway

See also

In Spanish: Municipio de Gotemburgo para niños