Enskede-Årsta-Vantör borough
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| Enskede-Årsta-Vantör | |
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| Country Country A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously... : |  Sweden |
| Municipality Municipality A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district... : | Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area... |
| Municipal part: | Söderort |
| Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat... : | ? km² |
| Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals... : | 85,084 (2007) |
| Established: | 2007 |
| Website: | Enskede-Årsta-Vantör on Stockholm site | Map |
Enskede-Årsta-Vantör is a so called borough (stadsdelsområde) in the southern part
South Stockholm
Söderort is the southern suburban part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden...
of Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
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Overview
The districts that make up the borough are Enskedefältet, Enskede GårdEnskede gård
Enskede gård is a community in Söderort, Stockholm, Sweden. It is the site of the Enskede gård metro station.The headquarters of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Britain and Scandinavia are located in Enskede gård.-References:...
, Gamla Enskede
Gamla Enskede
Gamla Enskede, "the garden city," is a district of Enskede-Årsta borough, South Stockholm, Sweden. It was created in 1904 to provide housing for workers, and is...
, Johanneshov
Johanneshov
Johanneshov is a district located at the intersection of national road 73 and Södra länken in Stockholm, Sweden....
, Stureby
Stureby
Stureby is a residential area in southern Stockholm, approx. 4 kilometers from Skanstull. The construction of Stureby started in the 1920s and was named after Sten Sture the Younger....
, Årsta
Årsta
Årsta may refer to:* a Stockholm district, west of Hammarby and south of Södermalm, across the Årstaviken gulf of Lake Mälaren, see Enskede-Årsta borough* Årsta Castle, a castle in the municipality of Haninge, Stockholm County...
, Östberga, Bandhagen
Bandhagen
Bandhagen is a suburban district south of Stockholm with 5417 inhabitants. It is located in the Enskede-Årsta-Vantör borough neighboring Högdalen, Stureby and Örby.The metro station with the same name was opened in 1954....
, Högdalen
Högdalen
Högdalen is a working class suburban district in South Stockholm, Sweden, built around the metro station with this name on line 19. It was connected to Stockholm City Centre in 1952, a year before the town planning was approved....
, Örby
Örby
Örby is a residential area in Söderort, Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It has an area of 159 hectares and 4,720 inhabitants.Örby got its name from the Örby Manor , which also has given name to the neiboughring residential area of Örby slott...
, Rågsved
Rågsved
Rågsved is a working-class suburb in the south of Stockholm, Sweden. It was built in the 1950–1970s and has had big problems with unemployment, criminality and drug abuse...
and Hagsätra
Hagsätra
Hagsätra is a quarter in Söderort, the southern part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It borders with the quarters of Älvsjö, Örby and Rågsved in Stockholm, as well as Stuvsta in neighboring Huddinge Municipality...
. The population was 81,000.
The borough was formed in January 2007 from the old boroughs Enskede-Årsta and Vantör
Vantör borough
Vantör was a so called borough in the southern part of Stockholm until 1 January 2007. The districts that made up the borough were Bandhagen, Hagsätra, Högdalen, Rågsved and Örby. The population as of 2004 was 35,155 over an area of 8.30 km², giving it a density of 4,236/km²...
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