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19-524: Västerhaninge borders the large Hanveden forest to the north, the Jordbro locality to the east, an agricultural region to the south, and the Tungelsta area to the west. The locality lies 22 km from Stockholm and 6 km from Handen . Districts of the locality include Åbylund, Norrskogen, and Jägartorp in the north, and Ribbyberg and Nedersta in the south. The Stockholm-Nynäs railway runs through

38-743: A "city" in 1948. From 1965 only "non-administrative localities" are counted, independently of municipal and county borders. In 1971 "city" was abolished as a type of municipality. Urban areas in the meaning of tätort are defined independently on the division into counties and municipalities, and are defined solely according to population density. In practice, most references in Sweden are to municipalities, not specifically to towns or cities, which complicates international comparisons. Most municipalities contain many localities (up to 26 in Kristianstad Municipality ), but some localities are, on

57-429: Is a purely statistical concept, not defined by any municipal or county boundaries. Larger urban areas synonymous with cities or towns ( Swedish : stad for both terms) for statistical purposes have a minimum of 10,000 inhabitants. The same statistical definition is also used for urban areas in the other Nordic countries . In 2018, there were nearly two thousand urban areas in Sweden, which were inhabited by 87% of

76-464: Is about 30 minutes. The station has been in the mid and late 1990s was the subject of rehabilitation; Extended Yard, direct connection between bus and train, the platform is accessed via a pedestrian tunnel that also serves as an improved relationship between the western and eastern Västerhaninge, new station building and the side platform and partly related to pedestrian and bicycle tunnel and heated waiting areas on platforms. Buses In connection with

95-682: Is opportunity to look at the animals and feel the farm life. Ekeby Lodge is best known for its Midsummer celebrations . Also nearby is the Jordbro Grave Field , believed to be the largest Iron Age grave field in the Nordic countries . Commuter Line 35 Nynäshamn - Bålsta passes Västerhaninge, which has a train station in connection to the center. There are four trains an hour in Stockholm , and two trains per hour towards Nynäshamn. Travel time by train to Stockholm or Nynäshamn

114-437: Is planned at the rapids, and shall include service station, motel and restaurant service. In Västerhaninge center planned for the expanded trade volume and the fall 2010 opening Systembolaget In Västerhaninge are several schools of all phases and several preschools. Berga Land Management School ( Berga naturbruksgymnasium ) is targeting land, horse management, environmental protection and nature conservation. Here we also find

133-449: Is the central track with illuminated tracks. In the north opens Hanvedens pristine forests that are of national interest in outdoor life. North of the sports ground is Nytorp meadows with several playing fields. To the east lies Blockula riding. South of Västerhaninge is Häringe Castle , and Almås Conference Västerhaninge is largely surrounded by nature. In those southern areas bordering the place to open agricultural landscape, whereas in

152-656: The Stockholm Sweden Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , which was completed in 1985. It was the hometown of a famous musician, Dead , from the band Mayhem . & athlete Nils Engdahl Major streets in Västerhaninge In Västerhaninge are Hanveden 's sports ground with playing fields, running track and ice rink. In connection with the schools are usually one or more of playing fields. The sports ground

171-430: The municipal entity were normally almost congruent. Urbanization and industrialization created, however, many new settlements without formal city status. New suburbs grew up just outside city limits, being de facto urban but de jure rural. This created a statistical problem. The census of 1910 introduced the concept of "densely populated localities in the countryside". The term tätort (literally "dense place")

190-624: The East meets the sea with Årsta havsbad and Berga as the central villages. In the northern part of Västerhaninge are Nytorp and Hanveden with ortentliga guide tracks within walking distance of the lake Öran . In the vicinity of Västerhaninge are also bathing areas and naturområderna Östnora , Gålö seaside and Årsta . Other popular destinations are Berga and Ekeby Lodge both located just south of Västerhaninge.Berga Land Management School organizes every year an event called "Mountain Days," where there

209-637: The Swedish population. Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort . The official term in English used by Statistics Sweden is, however, " locality " ( Swedish : ort ). It could be compared with " census-designated places " in the United States . Until the beginning of the 20th century, only the towns/cities were regarded as urban areas. The built-up area and

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228-404: The industrial area. Just to the south, between Jordbro and Västerhaninge is Jordbro Grave Field , a burial ground, thought to have been used somewhere between 500 BC and 500 CE. Jordbro has three schools, Kvarnbäcksskolan, Höglundaskolan and Fredsduvan, which are lower primary schools with preschools. Starting in 1973, filmmaker Rainer Hartleb has made a series of documentaries focusing on

247-584: The lives of a number of Jordbro residents, collectively known as the Jordbro suite. This article about a location in Stockholm County , Sweden is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Urban areas in Sweden An urban area or tätort ( lit.   ' dense locality ' ) in Sweden has a minimum of 200 inhabitants and may be a city, town or larger village. It

266-458: The oldest dating to the mid-1940s. Newer residential developments at Ribby ängar, Skarplöt, and Nedersta gård are planned. Retail and food service outlets are located near to the railway station, and convenience stores serve the suburbs. Smaller commercial centres are found in Åby and Ribby. Workplaces are both in the public sector in trade and other commercial activities. There are crafts and manufacturing of industrial Håga. A new area of work

285-522: The other hand, multimunicipal. Stockholm urban area is spread over 11 municipalities. When comparing the population of different cities, the urban area ( tätort ) population is preferred to the population of the municipality. The population of, e.g., Stockholm should be accounted as about 1.6 million rather than the approximately 990,000 of the municipality, and Lund rather about 94,000 than about 130,000. Before 2015 delimitation of localities were made by Statistics Sweden every five years, since then it

304-521: The railway lies a housing area built as part of the Million Programme , in the 1960s and 1970s. The housing area is made up of blocks of flats, with single family homes to the north and to the south. To the west of the housing area and the railway lies a relatively large industrial area, containing the main offices and production plant of The Coca-Cola Company in Sweden . Dagab, Lagena, Osram and Åhlens also have distribution warehouses in

323-571: The station is a bus terminal with "direct connection" between train and bus. Several bus routes serving the bus terminal. The station is a commuter parking and a taxi station. Jordbro Jordbro is a suburban locality situated in Haninge Municipality , Stockholm County , Sweden with 10,291 inhabitants in 2010. The suburb is separated in two by the Stockholm commuter rail . Route 73 (Nynäsvägen), passes just east of Jordbro and connects Stockholm and Nynäshamn . East of

342-412: The town, and the original station building was demolished to make way for a new one in 1997. The nearby Tungelsta station is the only one in the region to survive from the railway's original construction. Västerhaninge's several residential areas underwent expansion in the 1960s-1980s. Housing stock today includes co-operative apartments, rental apartments and villas with multiple sites and group houses,

361-399: Was introduced in 1930. The municipal amalgamations placed more and more rural areas within city municipalities, which was the other side of the same problem. The administrative boundaries were in fact not suitable for defining rural and urban populations. From 1950 rural and urban areas had to be separated even within city limits, as, e.g., the huge wilderness around Kiruna had been declared

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