Nordmaling Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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 in Västerbotten County

Västerbotten County

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 in northern Sweden

Sweden

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. Its seat

Administrative centre

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 is located in Nordmaling

Nordmaling

Nordmaling is a locality and the seat of Nordmaling Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden with 2,619 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...

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History

The municipal system in Sweden was introduced in 1863 and Nordmaling Municipality was one of the entities created out of a parish

Parish

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. In 1914 a part of the municipality was detached. The subdivision reforms of 1952 and 1971 did not affect the municipality.

Localities

There are three 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...

 (or urban areas) in Nordmaling Municipality:

#	Locality	Population
1	Nordmaling Nordmaling Nordmaling is a locality and the seat of Nordmaling Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden with 2,619 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...	2,619
2	Rundvik Rundvik Rundvik is a locality situated in Nordmaling Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden with 911 inhabitants in 2005....	911
3	Lögdeå Lögdeå Lögdeå is a locality situated in Nordmaling Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden with 414 inhabitants in 2005 and an area of 116 hectares....	414

The municipal seat in bold

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External links

• Nordmaling Municipality - Official site