Sandviken Municipality

Coordinates: 60°37′N 16°47′E / 60.617°N 16.783°E / 60.617; 16.783
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Sandviken Municipality
Sandvikens kommun
Sandviken Railway Station
Sandviken Railway Station
Coat of arms of Sandviken Municipality
Coordinates: 60°37′N 16°47′E / 60.617°N 16.783°E / 60.617; 16.783
CountrySweden
CountyGävleborg County
SeatSandviken
Area
 • Total1,297.07 km2 (500.80 sq mi)
 • Land1,166.4 km2 (450.3 sq mi)
 • Water130.67 km2 (50.45 sq mi)
 Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population
 (31 December 2023)[2]
 • Total38,628
 • Density30/km2 (77/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeSE
ProvinceGästrikland
Municipal code2181
Websitewww.sandviken.se

Sandviken Municipality (Sandvikens kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town of Sandviken.

The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.

Coat of arms[edit]

The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.

Name[edit]

Sandviken means "sandy bay". There are numerous other places by that name throughout Scandinavia.

Demographics[edit]

This is a demographic table based on Sandviken Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[3]

In total there were 29,612 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.[3] 50.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Sports[edit]

Sandviken Municipality was one of the co-arrangers of the 2017 Bandy World Championship, which was held in Göransson Arena, a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.[4]

See also[edit]

  • Sandvik - engineering company founded in Sandviken

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. ^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Valresultat 2022 för Sandviken i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Bandy-VM 2017 till Sandviken" (in Swedish). Sandviken Municipality. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.

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