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Sweden is divided into 21 counties, and below them into 290 municipalities, or kommuner: the tier that runs the schools, the care of the old, the water and the planning of every house. Every Swedish address sits in exactly one, and almost every town on a road sign is named for the municipality it heads. This page is the whole list, grouped by county the way the game groups it.
A kommun is an elected council with the right to levy income tax, and the boundaries are the result of two great mergers: in 1952 about 2,500 became 1,037, and in 1971 those became about 280. The count has crept up to 290 since, as a few split off. The south is a dense scatter of small ones, the north is a handful of vast ones, and the difference is the first thing to learn: Kiruna alone is about the size of Wales, while the 26 around Stockholm are mostly a few hundred square kilometres each.
The boundaries run out over lakes and sea, so Lake Vänern is divided between its shore municipalities rather than left blank, and Stockholm's skerries make some of the capital's municipalities mostly islands.
Each county can be switched on and off in the start dialog, which is the only sane way through a list this long. Gotland is one question, Västra Götaland is forty-nine.
Sundsvall is the largest municipality of Västernorrland and the one most people can already place, on the Bothnian coast about halfway up the country.
Kiruna is the largest municipality in Sweden by a wide margin, in the far north of Norrbotten, and it stretches from the Norwegian border almost to the Finnish one. It is the top-left of the northern block.
290, since 2003 when Knivsta was formed from part of Uppsala municipality. The number was about 280 after the 1971 reform and has risen a little since.
The local government tier: an elected council that levies income tax and runs schools, elderly care, water, waste and planning. Counties are left with healthcare and public transport.
Kiruna, in Norrbotten, by area, and Stockholm by population. Several southern ones have under a hundred square kilometres.
The small ones in Västra Götaland, Skåne and Stockholm, where a dozen sit edge to edge, and the large northern ones where the names are the problem rather than the borders.
The tier above this one is Sweden Counties, and its 21 answers are the 21 groups here. For another country's municipalities, see Netherlands Municipalities.
