Gotland County

Coordinates: 57°29′57″N 18°30′34″E / 57.499167°N 18.509444°E / 57.499167; 18.509444
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Gotland County
Gotlands län (Swedish)
County
NUTS Region
SE214
Websitewww.i.lst.se

Gotland County (

County Administrative Board, which oversees implementation of the Swedish state government. Both the County Administrative Board and the municipality have their seat in the largest city, Visby, with over 22,000 inhabitants. Princess Leonore, the daughter of Princess Madeleine
, is Duchess of Gotland.

Province

The provinces of Sweden are no longer officially administrative units but are used in reporting population size, politics, etc. In that case, the province, the county and the municipality all have identical borders and cover an area of 3151 km2[3]

Administration

Gotland is the only

county council. Instead, the municipality
is tasked with the responsibilities of a county, including public health care and public transport.

The main aims of the

County Administrative Board are to fulfil the goals set in national politics by the Riksdag and the Government, to coordinate the interests and promote the development of the county, to establish regional goals and safeguard the due process of law in the handling of each case. The County Administrative Board is a Government agency
headed by a Governor.

Mats Löfving is the regional police chief for both Stockholm and Gotland Counties.[4]

Politics

Main article: Region Gotland

During a trial period the County Council provisions for Gotland has been evolved to provisions for a Regional Council, meaning that it has assumed certain tasks from the County Administrative Board. Similar provisions are applicable to the counties of Västra Götaland and Skåne during the trial period.

Governors

Main article: List of governors of Gotland County

Localities in order of size

The five most populous localities of Gotland County in 2010:[5]

# Locality Population
1 Visby 22,593
2 Hemse 1,715
3 Slite 1,483
4 Klintehamn 1,363
5 Vibble 1,286

Foreign background

SCB have collected statistics on backgrounds of residents since 2002. These tables consist of all who have two foreign-born parents or are born abroad themselves.[6]
The chart lists election years and the last year on record alone.

Location 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2019
Gotland 4.8 5.2 5.8 6.4 8.8 9.2
Source: SCB [6]

Heraldry

Gotland County inherited its coat of arms from the province of Gotland. When it is shown with a royal crown it represents the County Administrative Board.

References

  1. ^ "Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 30 september 2017 och befolkningsförändringar 1 juli–30 september 2017. Totalt". Statistics Sweden. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  2. ^ Regions and Cities > Regional Statistics > Regional Economy > Regional GDP per Capita, OECD.Stats. Accessed on 16 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Statistisk årsbok för Sverige 2009" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden.
  4. ^ Mats Löfving ny Regionpolischef at aftonbladet.se, 1 October 2020, accessed 6 October 2020 (in Swedish)
  5. ^ "Tätorter 2010 (Localities 2010)". Statistics Sweden (in Swedish). 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  6. ^
    SCB
    . Retrieved 11 August 2020.

External links

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