Hallsberg Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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 in Örebro County

Örebro County

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 in central Sweden

Sweden

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. Its seat is located in the town of Hallsberg

Hallsberg

Hallsberg is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 7,122 inhabitants in 2005. It is also partly located in Kumla Municipality.-Overview:...

.

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the market town

Market town

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 (köping

Köping

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) of Hallsberg was amalgamated with adjacent municipalities. A series of amalgamations had taken place in the area in 1952, 1963 and 1967.

Localities

• Hallsberg
  Hallsberg
  Hallsberg is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 7,122 inhabitants in 2005. It is also partly located in Kumla Municipality.-Overview:...
  
   (seat)
• Hjortkvarn
  Hjortkvarn
  Hjortkvarn is a locality situated in Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 251 inhabitants in 2005....
  
  
• Pålsboda
  Pålsboda
  Pålsboda is a locality situated in Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 1,524 inhabitants in 2005.Pålsboda has one school, Folkasboskolan, one care centre, a couple of kindergartens, one ICA convenience store and two pizzerias....
  
  
• Sköllersta
  Sköllersta
  Sköllersta is a locality situated in Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 1,103 inhabitants in 2005.Skyllersta Hundred, Skyllersta härad or Sköllersta härad, was a hundred of Närke in Sweden....
  
  
• Vretstorp
  Vretstorp
  Vretstorp is a locality situated in Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 841 inhabitants in 2005....
  
  
• Östansjö
  Östansjö
  Östansjö is a locality situated in Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 862 inhabitants in 2005....
  
  

Twin towns

Hallsberg's three twin towns

Town twinning

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 with the year of its establishing:

1. (1946) Toijala
   Toijala
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   , Finland  
2. (1991) Valga, Estonia  
3. (1996) Gifhorn
   Gifhorn
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   , Germany  

External links

• Hallsberg Municipality - Official site