Country Sweden Seat Sandviken ISO 3166 code SE Province Gästrikland | County Gävleborg County Time zone CET (UTC+1) Municipal code 2181 | |
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Sandviken sweden
Sandviken Municipality (Sandvikens kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town Sandviken.
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Map of Sandviken, Sweden
The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.
Name
Note: As Sandviken means the sandy bay there are numerous other places of that name throughout Scandinavia.
Sports
Sandviken Municipality will be one of the co-arrangers of the 2017 Bandy World Championship, which will be held in Göransson Arena, a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.