Karlskrona Municipality

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Coordinates: 56°11′N 15°39′E
Country	Sweden
County	Blekinge County
Seat	Karlskrona
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Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Blekinge
Municipal code	1080
Website	www.karlskrona.se

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Karl XI monument

Karlskrona Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Blekinge County in South Sweden in southern Sweden. It borders to Emmaboda Municipality, Torsås Municipality and Ronneby Municipality. The city of Karlskrona 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 urban areas (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.

#	Locality	Population
1	Karlskrona	32,606
2	Rödeby	3,356
3	Nättraby	3,053
4	Jämjö	2,596
5	Hasslö	1,643
6	Sturkö	1,293
7	Fridlevstad	697
8	Tving	477
9	Torhamn	473
10	Spjutsbygd	422
11	Fågelmara	398
12	Skavkulla och Skillingenäs	380
13	Holmsjö	347
14	Drottningskär	328
15	Gängletorp	276
16	Kättilsmåla	238
17	Nävragöl	229
18	Brömsebro	213

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Karlskrona 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 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.

Location Residents Citizen

adults Left vote Right vote Employed Swedish

parents Foreign

heritage Income

SEK Degree % % Aspö 552 507 50.0 48.8 75 92 8 24,315 53 Bergåsa 1,470 1,061 47.8 50.1 71 77 23 27,261 71 Fridlevstad 1,450 1,131 34.9 63.6 85 94 6 25,582 32 Galgamarken 1,722 1,099 52.4 43.2 55 53 47 14,928 56 Hasslö 1,713 1,374 49.2 50.3 88 96 4 26,147 46 Hogland 1,382 1,120 44.1 53.6 77 77 23 24,124 47 Hässlegården 2,045 1,386 48.3 51.4 91 89 11 33,389 69 Hästö 1,461 1,106 45.8 53.9 88 93 7 35,004 75 Jämjö N 2,016 1,542 42.6 56.1 86 95 5 24,772 32 Jämjö S 1,550 1,219 46.4 52.8 87 95 5 24,490 40 Kristianopel 1,473 1,197 35.9 63.3 85 92 8 24,075 30 Kronotorp 1,589 1,089 53.0 45.7 74 70 30 23,495 41 Kungsmarken 2,552 1,183 78.9 17.2 46 15 85 11,101 35 Kättismåla 1,474 1,158 38.8 60.2 86 96 4 26,645 37 Lyckeby V 1,669 1,347 52.4 46.1 77 84 16 21,480 44 Lyckeby Ö 1,903 1,418 47.6 50.9 90 91 9 30,545 54 Långö-Gräsvik 1,607 1,238 45.2 52.4 57 79 21 20,252 69 Marieberg 2,139 1,299 57.8 39.8 53 44 56 14,614 42 Mariedal 1,945 1,497 53.0 45.8 82 75 25 25,641 46 Möllebacken 1,923 1,649 44.1 55.1 79 84 16 25,558 55 Nättraby S 2,195 1,529 39.8 59.5 92 96 4 33,151 64 Nättraby V 1,486 1,112 49.2 49.9 84 92 8 27,676 49 Nättraby Ö 1,741 1,287 44.1 55.2 89 94 6 32,227 60 Pantarholmen 2,051 1,708 50.9 47.7 71 76 24 21,358 57 Ramdala 1,413 1,105 42.1 57.1 88 95 5 27,304 44 Rosenfeldt 1,728 1,502 45.4 53.0 80 86 14 26,464 56 Rödeby N 2,139 1,615 41.9 57.0 85 91 9 26,365 42 Rödeby S 1,799 1,337 46.1 52.6 88 92 8 28,025 43 Saltö-Björkholmen 1,836 1,570 46.1 52.8 78 89 11 27,595 61 Sillhövda 1,358 1,076 33.2 65.6 77 89 11 22,120 27 Spandelstorp 2,199 1,589 44.1 54.9 81 85 15 27,406 49 Strömsberg 1,293 1,002 38.1 61.4 82 94 6 24,497 30 Sturkö 1,636 1,371 44.9 53.8 85 96 4 25,815 42 Torhamn 1,477 1,220 40.2 59.4 82 94 6 24,092 38 Trossö Ö 1,327 1,170 44.5 54.8 79 88 12 25,915 57 Trummenäs 1,229 933 37.3 61.9 90 97 3 32,470 59 Tving 1,241 1,008 34.6 64.4 86 93 7 24,375 31 Verkö 1,590 1,165 40.0 59.3 85 85 15 32,653 69 Västerudd 1,650 1,490 45.7 53.1 79 88 12 23,952 49 Wachtmeister 1,624 1,396 45.5 53.0 78 84 16 24,598 50 Source: SVT

Parishes

Parishes ordered by city and hundreds:

1. Karlskrona
   • Karlskrona City Parish
   • Royal Karlskrona Admiralty Parish
2. Eastern Hundred
   • Augerum Parish
   • Flymen Parish
   • Jämjö Parish
   • Kristianopel Parish
   • Lösen Parish
   • Ramdala Parish
   • Rödeby Parish
   • Sturkö Parish
   • Torhamn Parish
   • Virserum Parish
3. Medelstad Hundred
   • Aspö Parish
   • Fridlevstad Parish
   • Hasslö Parish
   • Nättraby Parish
   • Sillhövda Parish
   • Tving Parish
   • Hästö

Twin towns and sister cities

Karlskrona is twinned with:

• Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
• Aizpute, Latvia
• Gdynia, Poland
• Hillerød, Denmark
• Horten, Norway
• Klaipėda, Lithuania
• Loviisa, Finland
• Rostock, Germany

See also

• Blekinge Institute of Technology
• Swedish Coast Guard
• Swedish National Maritime Museums

References

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Karlskrona Municipality - Official site
• Mitt Karlskrona - Swedish Karlskrona city guide
• Coat of arms