Karlskrona Municipality (Karlskrona kommun) 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.

Karlskrona Municipality

Localities

There are 18 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Karlskrona Municipality.

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.

Karlskrona Municipality

Parishes

Parishes ordered by city and hundreds:

Karlskrona

Karlskrona City Parish

Royal Karlskrona Admiralty Parish

Eastern Hundred

Augerum Parish

Flymen Parish

Jämjö Parish

Kristianopel Parish

Lösen Parish

Ramdala Parish

Rödeby Parish

Sturkö Parish

Torhamn Parish

Virserum Parish

Medelstad Hundred

Aspö Parish

Fridlevstad Parish

Hasslö Parish

Nättraby Parish

Sillhövda Parish

Tving Parish

Hästö

International relations

Twin towns - sister cities

Karlskrona is twinned with:

Ólafsfjörður, Iceland

Aizpute, Latvia

Gdynia, Poland

Hillerød, Denmark

Horten, Norway

Klaipėda, Lithuania

Loviisa, Finland

Rostock, Germany

Villages

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

Municipalities of Blekinge County