Ystad Municipality

Ystad Municipality Ystads kommun
Municipality
Coat of arms
Country	Sweden
County	Skåne County
Seat	Ystad
Area
• Total	1,189.32 km2 (459.20 sq mi)
• Land	350.08 km2 (135.17 sq mi)
• Water	839.24 km2 (324.03 sq mi)
	Area as of January 1, 2014.
Population (March 31, 2016)
• Total	29,034
• Density	24/km2 (63/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Scania
Municipal code	1286
Website	www.ystad.se

Ystad Municipality (Ystads kommun) is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is the town of Ystad.

The present municipality was created in 1971 by the amalgamation of the former City of Ystad with four surrounding municipalities.

Localities

There are nine urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Ystad Municipality.

In the table the urban areas are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Ystad	17,286
2	Köpingebro	1,060
3	Svarte	836
4	Nybrostrand	675
5	Löderup	558
6	Sövestad	376
7	Glemmingebro	349
8	Hedeskoga	280
9	Stora Herrestad	258

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

Twin towns — sister cities

Ystad is twinned with:

• Druskininkai, Lithuania
• Świnoujście, Poland

References

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Ystad Municipality - Official site
• Österlen - Official site
• Kurt Wallander English Language site for fans of Henning Mankell's detective series, including information on, and photographs of, Ystad
• Branagh's Wallander - Website relating to the BBC's English language Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh