Page "Municipality" Paragraph 71

* In Sweden, a municipality ( kommun ) is self-governing according to the Swedish constitution and constitutes local government.

There are 290 municipalities in the country.

Before 1971, a municipality could be called a town ( stad ), a köping or a rural municipality ( landskommun ); present municipalities which used to be towns are still commonly called towns.

Sweden is also divided into 25 counties ( län ), each containing one or more of the municipalities.