Lilla Edet Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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 in Västra Götaland County

Västra Götaland County

Västra Götaland County is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 municipalities . Its population of 1,550,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population...

 in western Sweden

Sweden

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. Its seat is located in the town of Lilla Edet

Lilla Edet

Lilla Edet is a locality and the seat of Lilla Edet Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 4,936 inhabitants in 2005.The town Lilla Edet is situated on the eastern side of the Göta älv, a main river on the west coast of Sweden. It became known as a halt there...

.

The present municipality was formed in 1971, when the market town (köping

Köping

This article deals with the Swedish denomination for a market town. For the city, see Köping, Sweden. For the municipality, see Köping Municipality....

) Lilla Edet (instituted as late as 1951) was merged with Flundre (part of), Inlands Torpe and Lödöse.
Population figures from Statistics Sweden as of December 31, 2005.

• Lilla Edet
  Lilla Edet
  Lilla Edet is a locality and the seat of Lilla Edet Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 4,936 inhabitants in 2005.The town Lilla Edet is situated on the eastern side of the Göta älv, a main river on the west coast of Sweden. It became known as a halt there...
  
   (seat) (pop. 4,936)
• Lödöse
  Lödöse
  Lödöse is a locality situated in Lilla Edet Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 1,265 inhabitants in 2005...
  
   (pop. 1,265)
• Göta
  Göta, Sweden
  Göta is a locality situated in Lilla Edet Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 962 inhabitants in 2005....
  
   (pop. 962)
• Nygård
  Nygård, Sweden
  Nygård is a locality situated in Lilla Edet Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 436 inhabitants in 2005....
  
   (pop. 436)
• Hjärtum
  Hjärtum
  Hjärtum is a locality situated in Lilla Edet Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 384 inhabitants in 2005.It is situated on the western side of the Göta älv, a main river on the west coast of Sweden. The name Hjärtum originates from the worts "hjort" and "hem" , meaning "home of...
  
   (pop. 384)

Of these localities

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...

, Lödöse is nationally known for being the original location of the city of Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

. In the medieval age

Middle Ages

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 it was a busy city and hosted an important Swedish harbor

Harbor

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, until it was moved to its present location in 1473, and little remained. Today it has an interesting museum

Museum

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 with many interesting objects.

Industry

The largest employer in Lilla Edet Municipality apart from the government is the paper mill

Paper mill

A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags and other ingredients using a Fourdrinier machine or other type of paper machine.- History :...

 "SCA Hygiene Products AB Edet Bruk", with some 500 employees. It has been in operation for some 120 years, and is best known today for its manufacturing of the toilet paper

Toilet paper

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 brand "Edet", available in every store in Sweden.

External links

• Lilla Edet Municipality - Official site
• The local newspaper (TTELA
  TTELA
  TTELA is a Swedish daily newspaper which covers the municipalities Trollhättan, Vänersborg, Lilla Edet and Mellerud in the provinces Västergötland and Dalsland in the Västra Götaland County, West Sweden. It has a circulation of about 30 000 . The newspaper is owned by the "Stampen-Concern", and...
  
  )