Sundbyberg Municipality

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**Sundbyberg Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Sundbyberg municipality in the county Map outlining the municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Sundbyberg
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	County	Stockholm County
	Province	Uplandia
	Area Rank	8.72 km² 290th of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	33,816 69th of 290
	Population density	3,878/km²

Sundbyberg, colloquial Sumpan, is a municipality in Stockholm County, in east central Sweden. With an area of 8.8 km², it is the smallest municipality in Sweden by size. The town is a part of the Stockholm urban area.

The western parts border to Stockholm City and the eastern to Solna.

1 History
2 Industry
3 Districts
4 External links
5 Further reading

[edit] History

Sundbyberg was for a long time only an area of agriculture. In 1863 almost the entire area was bought by Anders Petter Löfström, who began building houses there. Ten years later he had sold 40 lots.

Soon various industries were located to Sundbyberg.

[edit] Industry

The 34,002 inhabitants live in roughly 17,001 apartments. The industrial policy of the municipality is to provide one job opportunity for every apartment, thus 17,001 jobs. So unlike other municipalities in Metropolitan Stockholm, Sundbyberg is not a bedroom suburb wherefrom people commute to Stockholm, but also a place commuted to from outside. In total, 12,000 commuters travel to or from Sundbyberg every day. In fact, the local railway station is also a major interchange between regional and commuter services as well as the metro at Sundbybergs centrum station.