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Norrköping Municipality

Norrköpings kommun
Norrköping Railway Station
Norrköping Railway Station
Coat of arms of Norrköping Municipality
Coat of arms
Norrköping Municipality in Östergötland County.png
Country Sweden
County Östergötland County
Seat Norrköping
Area
 • Total 2,028.99 km2 (783.40 sq mi)
 • Land 1,503.61 km2 (580.55 sq mi)
 • Water 525.38 km2 (202.85 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 129,566
 • Density 63.8574/km2 (165.3899/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Östergötland and Södermanland
Municipal code 0581
Website www.norrkoping.se

Norrköping Municipality (Norrköpings kommun) 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:

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. 45.7% voted for the left coalition and 52.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Norrköping is twinned with:

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