Scanie Coonty

**Skåne Coonty** (*Skåne län*), kent as **Scanie Coonty** in Scots an aw, is the soothmaist admeenistrative coonty or *[[län]]*, o Swaden, basically correspondin tae the traditional province Scanie (which in Swadish is cried Skåne). It borders the counties o Halland, Kronoberg an Blekinge. The seat o residence for the Skåne Govrenor is the toun o Malmö. The heidquairters o Region Skåne is the toun o Kristianstad.

The present coonty wis creatit in 1997 whan Kristianstad Coonty an Malmöhus Coonty wur mergit, an it covers aroond 3% o Swaden's tot aurie, but its population o 1,250,000 comprises 13% o Swaden's tot population.

## Endonym an exonym
When the new coonty wis established in 1997, it wis decidit tae name it efter the historical province Scanie, or *Skåne*, as it is cried in Swadish, sae it wis gien the name *Skåne län*. The maist common name uised in Scots is *Skåne Coonty*, even if the form *Scanie Coonty* is no uncommon. It can no be considered wrong tae uise either form in Scots.

## Heraldry
The coat o arms for Skåne County is the same as for the province o Scania anly wi the tinctures reversed an the crown, beak an tongue o the Griffin in the same colour. When the arms is shawn wi a royal crown it represents the County Administrative Buird, which is the regional presence o (royal) govrenment authority. Blazon: "Gules, a Griffin's head erased Or, crowned and armed the same".

## Provinces
Skåne Coonty is the admeenistrative equivalent o the province o Scanie, but it includes an insignificant pairt o the province o Halland.

## Admeenistration
The seat o residence for the Govrenor or *Landshövding* is the toun o Malmö. The Coonty Admeenistrative Buird is a Govrenment Agency heidit bi a Govrenor. See Leet o Skåne Govrenors.

The twa umwhile admeenistrative coonties o the province o Scanie shawn on the cairt, Kristianstad Coonty an Malmöhus Coonty, which wur established in 1719 wur mergit in 1997, formin the present coonty wi bundaries that are amaist identical tae the bundaries o the province.

## Coonty cooncil
**[[Skåne Regional Cooncil]]** (*Region Skåne*) is an evolvit Coonty Cooncil, which wis established in 1999 whan the Coonty Cooncils o the umwhile coonties wur amalgamatit. Its main responsibilities are for the public healcare seestem an public transport. In addition, it haes for a trial period assumit certain tasks frae the Coonty Admeenistrative Buird.

Its coonty or regional assembly is the heichest poleetical body in the region an its members are electit bi the electorate, as opposed tae the coonty admeenistrative buird, that guards the naitional interests in the coonty unner the chairmanship o the o coonty govrenor (*landshövding* in Swadish).

## Municipalities

Skåne Coonty is subdividit intae 33 municipalities
(*kommuner* in Swadish), the lairgest bein Malmö Municipality (301,000 indwallers), Helsingborg Municipality (130,000), Lund Municipality (111,000 indwallers) an Kristianstad Municipality (80,000 indwallers). The municipalities hae municipal govrenments, seemilar tae ceety commissions, an are further dividit intae parishes. The parish diveesion is tradeetionally uised bi the Kirk o Swaden, but serves as a diveesionin measur for Swadish census an elections.


Bjuv
Bromölla
Burlöv
Båstad
Eslöv
Helsingborg
Hässleholm
Höganäs
Hörby
Höör
Klippan

Kristianstad
Kävlinge
Landskrona
Lomma
Lund
Malmö
Osby
Perstorp
Simrishamn
Sjöbo
Skurup

Staffanstorp
Svalöv
Svedala
Tomelilla
Trelleborg
Vellinge
Ystad
Åstorp
Ängelholm
Örkelljunga
Östra Göinge


## Electoral destricts

The coonty is dividit intae fower parliamentary constituences or electoral destricts, electin 45 o the 349 members o the *Riksdag*, the Parliament o Swaden. Each destrict is made up o ane or mair municipalities.

The poleetical pairties are representit bi the follaein nummer o MPs frae Skåne Coonty efter the Swadish general election, 2010:

* Moderate Pairty 16
* Swadish Social Democratic Pairty 12
* Leeberal Fowkpairty 4
* Green Pairty 4
* Swaden Democrats 4
* Centre Pairty 2
* Christian Democrats 2
* Left Pairty 1

## Localities in order o size
The ten maist populous localities o Skåne Coonty as defined bi Statistics Sweden 2005:

## Transport

The motorwa biggit atween Malmö an Lund in 1953 wis the first motorwa in Swaden. Wi the openin o the Oresund Brig atween Malmö an Copenhagen (the langest combined road an rail brig in Europe) in 2000, the Swadish motorwas wur linkit wi European route E20 in Denmark, an the twa kintras' railwey seestems wur pheesically connectit. Afore the brig wis biggit thare wur train ferries operatit atween Helsingborg an Helsingør. Thare are train ferries tae an frae Germany an Poland an aw.

Scanie haes three major public airports, Malmö Airport, Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport an Kristianstad Airport. Ane o the auldest airports in the warld still in uise is locatit in Scanie, namely Ljungbyhed Airport, in operation syne 1910. Stairtin in 1926, the 
Swadish Air Force uused the airport for flicht trainin, an up till the militar schuil wis myuvit tae the nearbi Ängelholm F10 Wing in 1997, 
the airport wis extremely busy. In the late 1980s, it wis Swaden's busiest airport, wi a record heich o mair nor 1,400 tak-affs an landins per day.

The major ports o Scanie are Trelleborg, Copenhagen Malmö Port an Helsingborg Harbour. Ferry connections athor the Easter Seas operate frae several smawer ports as well.

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Skåne Coonty Admeenistrative Buird
*Skåne Regional Cooncil