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Västra Götaland County

Skara Municipality

Skara Municipality is a municipality in in western . Its seat is located in the city of . The area of the municipality consists of 16 original local government entities.
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  • Type: Municipality with 18,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “1495” and “Skara kommun”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Skara Cathedral and Västergötland museum.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
is a church in the town of , Sweden. The cathedral is the seat for the bishop of the Diocese of Skara of the Church of Sweden.

Museum
Photo: Nasko, Public domain.

Photo: D.O.G.A., CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Skara and Ardala.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a locality and the seat of Municipality, , with 18,580 inhabitants in 2013. Despite its small size, it is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, and has a long educational and ecclesiastical history.

Village
is a locality situated in Skara Municipality, , with 725 inhabitants in 2010. It was founded in 1890 and used to have a and a library, but is now only a residential area with mostly villas and one-family-houses.

Skara Municipality

Latitude
58.3667° or 58° 22′ north
Longitude
13.4333° or 13° 26′ east
Population
18,700
Elevation
120 metres (394 feet)
Open location code
9FCM9C8M+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302270384
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
2678205
Wiki­data ID
Q499421
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Skara Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սկարա”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Skara (Suecia)”
  • Asturian: “Skara kommun”
  • Asturian: “Skara”
  • Basque: “Skara udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “камуна Скара”
  • Belarusian: “Скара”
  • Bulgarian: “община Скара”
  • Bulgarian: “Скара”
  • Catalan: “municipi de Skara”
  • Cebuano: “Skara Kommun”
  • Cebuano: “Skara komyun”
  • Chinese: “Skara Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “斯卡拉市鎮”
  • Chinese: “斯卡拉市镇”
  • Danish: “Skara kommun”
  • Danish: “Skara Kommune”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Skara”
  • Dutch: “Skara”
  • Esperanto: “komunumo Skara”
  • Esperanto: “Skara kommun”
  • Esperanto: “Skara”
  • Estonian: “Skara vald”
  • Faroese: “Skara kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Skaran kunta”
  • French: “commune de Skara”
  • French: “Commune de Skara”
  • French: “Skara”
  • Galician: “concello de Skara”
  • Galician: “Concello de Skara”
  • German: “Gemeinde Skara”
  • German: “Skara”
  • Greek: “δήμος της Σκαρας”
  • Hungarian: “Skara község”
  • Icelandic: “Skara sveitarfélag”
  • Italian: “comune di Skara”
  • Italian: “Municipalità di Skara”
  • Italian: “Skara”
  • Japanese: “スカーラ自治体”
  • Korean: “스카라시”
  • Ladin: “Skara”
  • Latvian: “Skara pašvaldība”
  • Limburgan: “Skara”
  • Lithuanian: “Skaros savivaldybė”
  • Lombard: “Skara”
  • Low German: “Kommun Skara”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Skara Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Skara (Komuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Skara”
  • Northern Sami: “Skara gielda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skara kommun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skara kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skara kommun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skara kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Skara kommune”
  • Persian: “بخش اسکارا”
  • Polish: “gmina Skara”
  • Polish: “Gmina Skara”
  • Portuguese: “comuna da Skara”
  • Portuguese: “Comuna de Skara”
  • Portuguese: “Skara”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Skara”
  • Russian: “Скара”
  • Scots: “Skara Municipality”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Skara”
  • Slovenian: “Skara kommun”
  • Spanish: “municipio de Skara”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Skara”
  • Swedish: “Skara kommun”
  • Swedish: “Skara”
  • Swedish: “Skaras kommun”
  • Turkish: “Skara belediyesi”
  • Ukrainian: “комуна Скара”
  • Ukrainian: “Скара”
  • Vietnamese: “đô thị Skara”
  • Vietnamese: “Skara”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Skara”

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