Viken is a bimunicipal locality

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...

 situated in Höganäs Municipality

Höganäs Municipality

Höganäs Municipality is one of 290 municipalities of Sweden, in Skåne County in the southern part of the country. Its seat is located in the city of Höganäs....

 and Helsingborg Municipality

Helsingborg Municipality

Helsingborg Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Helsingborg, which is Sweden's eighth largest city...

 in Skåne County

Skåne County

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, Sweden

Sweden

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 with 3,753 inhabitants in 2005. It has a surface area of 224 hectares. 223 of these are in the Höganäs municipality.

Well-known for its harbour, the village has a long history of sea-faring and fishing. It is also known for the distinctive changing rooms lining its coast.

The creator of the Swedish comic character Bamse

Bamse

Bamse – Världens starkaste björn is a Swedish cartoon created by Rune Andréasson. The highly popular children's cartoon first emerged as a series of television short films as well as a weekly half page Sunday strip in 1966, before being published periodically in its own comic magazine since...

lived and died in Viken.