Varberg (municipality)

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Varberg municipality
Coat of arms of the municipality of Varberg Location of the municipality of Varberg
coat of arms Location in Hallands Lan
State : Sweden
Province (län): Hallands Lan
Historical Province (landskap): Halland
Main place: Varberg
SCB code: 1383
Residents : 64,601 (December 31, 2019)
Area : 909.7 km² (January 1, 2016)
Population density : 71 inhabitants / km²
Website : www.varberg.se
List of municipalities in Sweden

Coordinates: 57 ° 6 '  N , 12 ° 15'  E

Varberg is a municipality ( Swedish kommun ) in the Swedish province of Halland County and the historic province of Halland . The main town of the municipality is Varberg .

economy

Varberg (municipality) (Halland)
Lilla Middelgrund
Lilla Middelgrund
Flat bread reason
Flat bread reason

The largest employers in the municipality are the municipal administration itself with around 4,500 employees and the provincial judicial authority with around 1,400 employees. Sweden's largest nuclear power plant , Ringhals , is also located here and employs around 1,400 people. The Internet company LunarWorks , which operates Sweden's most popular online community ( LunarStorm ), is also important. There are also larger factories for the production and processing of paper, wood and concrete.

Varberg town hall

Around 5,000 residents of the municipality commute to Gothenburg or Falkenberg every day and around 3,200 commuters come to work in the municipality.

natural reserve

South of the city Varberg is located in the town of Varberg the nature reserve Gamla Köpstad Naturreservatet Gamla Köpstad that of the places Gamla Köpstad or Träslövsläge can be reached from. There is also an observation tower with information boards in Gamla Köpstad.

17 km west of the coast is the Fladengrund shoal and a good 20 km southwest of Lilla Middelgrund , both of which are Natura 2000 areas.

Town twinning

Vaberg has partnerships with three cities: Uusikaupunki in Finland, Haderslev in Denmark and Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic.

Web links

Commons : Municipality of Varberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner December 31, 2019 at Statistiska centralbyrån
  2. ↑ Kommunarealer January 1, 2016 at Statistiska centralbyrån (including all inland waters)
  3. ↑ Varbergs Kommun - Nätverk och vänorter , accessed on October 29, 2018