Ystad Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Ystads kommun


county=Skåne County
province=Scania
capital=Ystad


arearank=225th
area=356.74
arealand=352.44
populationrank=87th
population=27,398
densityrank=67th
populationdensity=77.7
website=http://www.ystad.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Ystad Municipality ("Ystads kommun") is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Ystad.

The present municipality was created in 1971 by the amalgamation of the former "City of Ystad" with four surrounding municipalities.

Localities

There are 9 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Ystad Municipality.

In the table the urban areas are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

ister cities

Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway

References

* [http://www.scb.se Statistics Sweden]

External links

* [http://www.ystad.se/ Ystad Municipality] - Official site
* [http://www.osterlen.se/ Österlen] - Official site
* [http://www.inspector-wallander.org/ Kurt Wallander] English Language site for fans of Henning Mankell's detective series, including information on, and photographs of, Ystad