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Wikipedia

Huddinge Municipality (Huddinge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge, which is a part of Stockholm urban area.

The municipality is the second most populated in Stockholm County.

Geography

The municipality covers the entire central part of the Södertörn peninsula. More than half of the land area consists of agriculture, forests, hills, or lakes, and it contains seven nature reserves.

Huddinge borders the following municipalities: Stockholm Municipality, Ekerö Municipality (by water), Botkyrka Municipality, Haninge Municipality and Tyresö Municipality (by water).

Nature reserves in Huddinge Municipality
Björksättra Peninsula Nature Reserve Flemingsbergsskogen Nature Reserve Gömmaren Nature Reserve, including the Fullersta kvarn Natura 2000 area. Gladöskogen Nature Reserve Gömsta Äng Nature Reserve Lännaskogen Nature Reserve, including Lissma-Kvarnsjö and Lännaskogen Natura 2000 areas. Orlången Nature Reserve Paradiset Nature Reserve, including Granby and Hanveden Natura 2000 areas. Trångsundsskogen Nature Reserve

Nature reserves in Huddinge Municipality

Björksättra Peninsula Nature Reserve
Flemingsbergsskogen Nature Reserve
Gömmaren Nature Reserve, including the Fullersta kvarn Natura 2000 area.
Gladöskogen Nature Reserve
Gömsta Äng Nature Reserve
Lännaskogen Nature Reserve, including Lissma-Kvarnsjö and Lännaskogen Natura 2000 areas.
Orlången Nature Reserve
Paradiset Nature Reserve, including Granby and Hanveden Natura 2000 areas.
Trångsundsskogen Nature Reserve

Lakes in Huddinge Municipality
Vårbyfjärden Albysjön Gömmaren Långsjön Trehörningen Mörtsjön Orlången	Kvarnsjön-Gladö Kärrsjön Holmträsket Rudträsket Ådran Trehörningen-Paradiset Långsjön-Paradiset Ormputten	Öran Lissmasjön Trylen Kvarnsjön-Lissma Ågestasjön Magelungen Drevviken

Lakes in Huddinge Municipality

Demography

Huddinge has a total population of roughly 90,000, or 4.5% of the population of Stockholm County. The average age is 36.7 years, but one-third of the population is under 25 years of age. This means that Huddinge has a slightly younger population than both Stockholm County (38.9 years) and the whole country (40.6 years). The population density of the municipality is increasing significantly. Since the 1960s, the population has doubled in size and is currently among the 17 largest municipalities in Sweden.

Localities

Stockholm urban area (part of) 86,802 inh.
Vidja 633 inh.
Rural areas 2,465 inh.

Public transport

Huddinge is served by the Stockholm public transport system. There are two stations on the Stockholm Metro and five on the Stockholm commuter rail system as well as large bus network. Some main line train call at Flemingsberg.

History

It is believed that the history of Huddinge goes back at least 1,000 years, to before the Viking Age. When hostile ships approached the community, the inhabitants of Huddinge would climb to high locations and light beacons. Beacons were located around the entirety of Lake Mälaren. Huddinge's coat of arms has its origins in this tradition. The name Huddinge is believed to come from the Uddung's - the first inhabitants in this area, which during the Iron Age lived on the shores of Lake Mälaren nearby Vårby.

Subdivisions

Huddinge municipality is sub-divided into six districts:

Skogås/Trångsund (pop. 22,223)
Sjödalen/Fullersta (pop. 18,439)
Stuvsta/Snättringe (pop. 14,879)
Flemingsberg (pop. 12,682)
Segeltorp (pop. 10,507)
Vårby (pop. 9,271), including Masmo

There are four territorial parishes of the Church of Sweden within the municipality: Huddinge, Trångsund, Flemingsberg and St. Mikael.

Culture

The municipality contains six public libraries, Södertörn University College and one of the campuses for Karolinska Institutet.

Kungens Kurva is one of Sweden's largest shopping areas. It hosts, among other things, the largest IKEA store in the world, the largest cinema in the country, and a large shopping centre. In total, it generates a turnover of 6 billion Swedish kronor and has 15 million visitors per year.

Split into two municipalitues

After years of debate a vote is planned in 2008 regarding a split of Huddinge into two different municipalitues named in published documents as Huddinge and Huddinge östra ("Huddinge East"). The intention with a split is to make the eastern part of Huddinge its own municipality after years of protests from inhabitants. Due to large protests it was decided in 2007 to hold a vote regarding the split. However it was proposed that only the inhabitants of eastern Huddinge would be allowed to vote. This has caused a major political split of opinions as the political opposition wants to see a vote. At least 60% of the inhabitants of eastern Huddinge must vote yes for the split to be performed.