Kalmar

Kalmar is a city in south east Sweden with some 34,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of Kalmar municipality which in turn forms the seat for the Kalmar County.

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Kalmar is one of the oldest cities of Sweden. According to the story of the Norwegian patron Saint Olav, Olav had his ships moved to Kalmar 1027. The oldest contemporary records are also from the 11th century, on runestones. There Kalmar is used in the meaning Kalmar Strait, as the city itself had not yet been founded.

Sweden: The Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ') is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak Strait and the Kattegat Strait on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia on the east. Sweden has a low populatio...

Kalmar municipality: Kalmar municipality is a municipality in southeastern Sweden, where the town Kalmar (pop. 34,000) is the seat....

Kalmar County: Kalmar County, or Kalmar l?n is a County or l?n in southern Sweden. It borders to the counties of Kronoberg, J?nk?ping, Blekinge and ?sterg?tland. To the east in the Baltic Sea is the island Gotland. The county is an administrative unit that did not exist until the municipalities were created in the...

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