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Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm (Swedish: Stockholms kommun or Stockholms stad) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It has the largest population of the 290 municipalities of the country, but one of the smallest areas, making it the second most densely populated.
The City of Stockholm [a] (Swedish: Stockholms stad) was a city in Sweden and 1863–1970 a city municipality for Stockholm, subordinate to the Office of the Governor of Stockholm until 1967 and then part of Stockholm County. On January 1, 1971, the City of Stockholm became part of Stockholm Municipality due to a municipal reform in Sweden.
Stockholm Municipality (Swedish: Stockholms Kommun) is one of the 29 multi-member constituencies of the Riksdag, the national legislature of Sweden. The constituency was established in 1970 when the Riksdag changed from a bicameral legislature to a unicameral legislature. It is conterminous with the municipality of Stockholm.
Stockholm City Hall (Swedish: Stockholms stadshus, Stadshuset locally) is the seat of Stockholm Municipality in Stockholm, Sweden. It stands on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, next to Riddarfjärden's northern shore and facing the islands of Riddarholmen and Södermalm. It houses offices and conference rooms as well as ceremonial halls.
After all these relocations, the entire Government Offices is now situated north of Stockholms ström—gathered together but still spread across different buildings. Most ministries, the Prime Minister's Office, and the Government Offices Office for Administrative Affairs ( Regeringskansliets förvaltningsavdelning ) are connected through an ...
Though the Swedish Local Government Act (Swedish: Kommunallagen) uses the term "municipal assembly" in an English translation of the Act, [1] "municipal council" and even "city council" are used as well, even in official contexts in English by several of Sweden's largest municipalities, including Stockholm, [2] Malmö, [3] and Gothenburg. [4]
The first local government acts were implemented on 1 January 1863. There were two acts, one for the cities and one for the countryside. The total number of municipalities was about 2,500. The rural municipalities were based on the country-side civil parishes or administrative parishes (socknar), often formed in the Middle Ages around a church ...
Stockholm Municipality uses the English term "district" (Swedish: stadsdelområde) to describe these subdivisions. [citation needed] The districts were first created in 1997 to facilitate the efficiency of local government in Stockholm. The number of districts was reduced from 24 to 18 the following year, and reduced again to the current 14 in ...