Malmö Municipality

Malmö Municipality () is a municipality in Skåne Coonty in Swaden. Its seat is locatit in the ceety o Malmö.

When the first Swadish local govrenment acts wur implementit in 1863 the auld Ceety o Malmö wis made ane o the kintra's 88 ceety municipalities an the first ceety cooncil wis electit. The municipal territory haes been augmentit through amalgamations in 1911, 1915, 1931, 1935, 1952, 1967 an feenally in 1971.

In 1971 the ceety wis convertit intaea municipality o unitary type an aw, like aw ithers in Swaden. Malmö Municipality, housomeivver, styles itsel Malmö stad (Ceety o Malmö) in aw cases when it is legally possible. This is a decision taken bi the municipal assembly. It is purely nominal an haes nae effect on the legal status o the municipality.

Urban auries
There are 8 urban auries (cried a tätort or locality) in Malmö Municipality.

In the table the urban auries are leetit accordin tae the size o the population as o December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bauld characters.

 #  Locality  Population 1  Malmö  258,020 2  Oxie  9,225 3  Bunkeflostrand  6,874 4  Tygelsjö  1,862 5  Kristineberg  1,076 6  Södra Klagshamn  975 7  Vintrie  338 8  Västra Klagstorp  266

A sma pairt o Malmö urban aurie is situatit in Burlöv Municipality.

Ceety destricts
Follaein the 1996 Ceety Destrict Reform (Swadish stadsdelsreformen), Malmö Municipality is dividit intae the follaein 10 ceety destricts (Swadish stadsdel), which manage public kindergartens, schuils, an geriatric care athin their geographical auries, an provide funds for local cultural an recreational activities.


Inhabitants as of January 1, 2006Oxie10 846Limhamn-Bunkeflo33 737Rosengård21 447Kirseberg13 869Husie18 236Fosie39 614Hyllie30 711Södra Innerstaden32 089Västra Innerstaden31 210Centrum38 233


Local government

The municipal legislative body o the municipality is the 61-member municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige), electit by proportional representation for a fower-year term. The assembly appoints the municipality's main govrenin bodies, the 11-member executive committee (kommunstyrelsen) an the 8 govrenin commissioners. The executive committee an the commissioners are heidit bi the Mayor (kommunstyrelsens ordförande).

The Mayor o the Ceety o Malmö is Mr. Ilmar Reepalu, in office syne 1995, o the Social Democratic Pairty.

Internautional relations

Twin touns — sister ceeties

As o 2011, Malmö haes toun twinnin treaties or treaties o co-operation signed wi 12 ceeties. Of these, cooperation is closest wi Newcastle, Tallinn, the province o Chieti an wi Vaasa.

The complete leet o ceeties is the follaein:
  Province o Chieti, Italy, co-operation treaty signed in 2001.
  Florence, Italy, twin touns syne 1989.
  Kaliningrad, Roushie, co-operation treaty
  Newcastle, Unitit Kinrick, co-operation treaty signed in 2003.
  Port Adelaide, Australie, twin touns syne 1988.
  Stralsund, Germany, twin touns syne 1991.  Swakopmund, Namibie, twin touns syne 2008.
  Szczecin, Poland, twin touns syne 1990.
  Tallinn, Estonie, twin touns syne 1989.
  Tangshan, Cheenae, twin touns syne 1987.
  Vaasa, Finland, twin touns since 1940.
  Varna, Bulgarie, twin touns syne 1987.

See an aw
Malmö
Malmö urban aurie
Greater Malmö

References

Statistics Swaden

Category:Malmö
Category:Municipalities o Skåne Coonty