Kävlinge Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 counties...

 in Skåne County

Skåne County

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 in southern Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. Its seat is located in the town of Kävlinge

Kävlinge

Kävlinge is a locality and the seat of Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 8,550 inhabitants in 2005.In 1996, a train containing large amounts of ammonia derailed and around 9,000 people had to be evacuated from the area...

.

Localities

There are nine urban area

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Kävlinge Municipality. In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Kävlinge Kävlinge Kävlinge is a locality and the seat of Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 8,550 inhabitants in 2005.In 1996, a train containing large amounts of ammonia derailed and around 9,000 people had to be evacuated from the area...	10,500
2	Löddeköpinge Löddeköpinge Löddeköpinge is the second-largest locality in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, with 5,582 inhabitants as of 2005.Löddeköpinge is about 10 km southwest of the municipal seat Kävlinge and about 5 km from Barsebäck nuclear power plant....	5,582
3	Furulund Furulund Furulund is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 3,888 inhabitants in 2005....	3,888
4	Hofterup Hofterup Hofterup is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 3,243 inhabitants in 2005.Hofterup is known for:Hofterupsdösen, a stone chamber tomb from the Neolithic...	3,243
5	Dösjebro Dösjebro Dösjebro is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 752 inhabitants in 2005....	752
6	Sandskogen Sandskogen Sandskogen is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 533 inhabitants in 2005....	533
7	Barsebäck Barsebäck Barsebäck is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 509 inhabitants in 2005.It lies about 4 km east of the harbour village Barsebäckshamn. It is known for the Barsebäck nuclear power plant, and for the internationally known golf course Barsebäck Golf & Country Club...	509
8	Barsebäckshamn Barsebäckshamn Barsebäckshamn is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 401 inhabitants in 2005....	401
9	Lilla Harrie Lilla Harrie Lilla Harrie is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 321 inhabitants in 250 households, 2005.Lilla Harrie Valskvarn is situated here, Sweden's oldest mill, founded in 1509. The archbishop at the time bought the mill. The purchase was approved and thereby...	321

Barsebäck

Barsebäck

Barsebäck is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 509 inhabitants in 2005.It lies about 4 km east of the harbour village Barsebäckshamn. It is known for the Barsebäck nuclear power plant, and for the internationally known golf course Barsebäck Golf & Country Club...

 was the location of a nuclear power plant

Nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. As in a conventional thermal power station the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to a generator which produces electricity.Nuclear power plants are usually...

, opened in the 1970s, but after decades of Danish protests - Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 being located just across the Oresund

Oresund

The Sound , is the strait that separates the Danish island Zealand from the southern Swedish province of Scania. Its width is just at the narrowest point between Helsingør, Denmark, and Helsingborg, Sweden...

Sound - it closed in 2005.

External links

• Kävlinge - Official site