Karlskrona Municipality () is a municipality in Blekinge County in South Sweden in southern Sweden. It borders to Emmaboda Municipality, Torsås Municipality and Ronneby Municipality. The city of Karlskrona is the seat of the municipality.

Like most Swedish municipalities it was created during the municipal reform in the early seventies, combining several earlier local government units of urban and rural type, among them the City of Karlskrona.

Localities There are 18 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Karlskrona Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

# Locality Population 1 Karlskrona 32,606 2 Rödeby 3,356 3 Nättraby 3,053 4 Jämjö 2,596 5 Hasslö 1,643 6 Sturkö 1,293 7 Fridlevstad 697 8 Tving 477 9 Torhamn 473 10 Spjutsbygd 422 11 Fågelmara 398 12 Skavkulla och Skillingenäs 380 13 Holmsjö 347 14 Drottningskär 328 15 Gängletorp 276 16 Kättilsmåla 238 17 Nävragöl 229 18 Brömsebro 213

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Karlskrona Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

In total there were 66,647 residents, including 50,805 Swedish citizens of voting age. 45.2 % voted for the left coalition and 53.5 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Aspö 552 507 50.0 48.8 75 92 8 24,315 53Bergåsa 1,470 1,061 47.8 50.1 71 77 23 27,261 71Fridlevstad 1,450 1,131 34.9 63.6 85 94 6 25,582 32Galgamarken 1,722 1,099 52.4 43.2 55 53 47 14,928 56Hasslö 1,713 1,374 49.2 50.3 88 96 4 26,147 46Hogland 1,382 1,120 44.1 53.6 77 77 23 24,124 47Hässlegården 2,045 1,386 48.3 51.4 91 89 11 33,389 69Hästö 1,461 1,106 45.8 53.9 88 93 7 35,004 75Jämjö N 2,016 1,542 42.6 56.1 86 95 5 24,772 32Jämjö S 1,550 1,219 46.4 52.8 87 95 5 24,490 40Kristianopel 1,473 1,197 35.9 63.3 85 92 8 24,075 30Kronotorp 1,589 1,089 53.0 45.7 74 70 30 23,495 41Kungsmarken 2,552 1,183 78.9 17.2 46 15 85 11,101 35Kättismåla 1,474 1,158 38.8 60.2 86 96 4 26,645 37Lyckeby V 1,669 1,347 52.4 46.1 77 84 16 21,480 44Lyckeby Ö 1,903 1,418 47.6 50.9 90 91 9 30,545 54Långö-Gräsvik 1,607 1,238 45.2 52.4 57 79 21 20,252 69Marieberg 2,139 1,299 57.8 39.8 53 44 56 14,614 42Mariedal 1,945 1,497 53.0 45.8 82 75 25 25,641 46Möllebacken 1,923 1,649 44.1 55.1 79 84 16 25,558 55Nättraby S 2,195 1,529 39.8 59.5 92 96 4 33,151 64Nättraby V 1,486 1,112 49.2 49.9 84 92 8 27,676 49Nättraby Ö 1,741 1,287 44.1 55.2 89 94 6 32,227 60Pantarholmen 2,051 1,708 50.9 47.7 71 76 24 21,358 57Ramdala 1,413 1,105 42.1 57.1 88 95 5 27,304 44Rosenfeldt 1,728 1,502 45.4 53.0 80 86 14 26,464 56Rödeby N 2,139 1,615 41.9 57.0 85 91 9 26,365 42Rödeby S 1,799 1,337 46.1 52.6 88 92 8 28,025 43Saltö-Björkholmen 1,836 1,570 46.1 52.8 78 89 11 27,595 61Sillhövda 1,358 1,076 33.2 65.6 77 89 11 22,120 27Spandelstorp 2,199 1,589 44.1 54.9 81 85 15 27,406 49Strömsberg 1,293 1,002 38.1 61.4 82 94 6 24,497 30Sturkö 1,636 1,371 44.9 53.8 85 96 4 25,815 42Torhamn 1,477 1,220 40.2 59.4 82 94 6 24,092 38Trossö Ö 1,327 1,170 44.5 54.8 79 88 12 25,915 57Trummenäs 1,229 933 37.3 61.9 90 97 3 32,470 59Tving 1,241 1,008 34.6 64.4 86 93 7 24,375 31Verkö 1,590 1,165 40.0 59.3 85 85 15 32,653 69Västerudd 1,650 1,490 45.7 53.1 79 88 12 23,952 49Wachtmeister 1,624 1,396 45.5 53.0 78 84 16 24,598 50Source: SVT

Parishes Parishes ordered by city and hundreds:

Karlskrona Karlskrona City Parish Royal Karlskrona Admiralty Parish Eastern Hundred Augerum Parish Flymen Parish Jämjö Parish Kristianopel Parish Lösen Parish Ramdala Parish Rödeby Parish Sturkö Parish Torhamn Parish Virserum Parish Medelstad Hundred Aspö Parish Fridlevstad Parish Hasslö Parish Nättraby Parish Sillhövda Parish Tving Parish Hästö

Twin towns and sister cities Karlskrona is twinned with:

Ólafsfjörður, Iceland Aizpute, Latvia Gdynia, Poland Hillerød, Denmark Horten, Norway Klaipėda, Lithuania Loviisa, Finland Rostock, Germany

Villages

See also Blekinge Institute of Technology Swedish Coast Guard Swedish National Maritime Museums

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Karlskrona Municipality - Official site Mitt Karlskrona - Swedish Karlskrona city guide Coat of arms