Ragunda Municipality | |
Native Name: | Ragunda kommun |
Native Name Lang: | sv |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Jämtland County |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Seat: | Hammarstrand |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Note: | Area as of . |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Blank Name Sec1: | Province |
Blank Info Sec1: | Jämtland |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | 2303 |
Iso Code: | SE |
Website: | www.ragunda.se |
Ragunda Municipality (in Swedish pronounced as /ˈrɑ̂ːˌɡɵnːda/)[1] is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is in Hammarstrand.
The present municipality was formed in 1974, when "old" Ragunda Municipality was amalgamated with the municipalities of Fors and Stugun. Further amalgamations have been discussed due to declining population but have not been carried out.
Ragunda Municipality is known for being the site of the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Building, which is by the village Utanede. Designed as a Thai royal pavilion, the only one of its kind outside Thailand, it was raised in 1997 in commemoration of King Chulalongkorn's visit there a century earlier.
Döda Fallet (The dead waterfall) is an extinct whitewater rapid in a nature reserve and one of the major tourist attractions of the municipality.
There are four localities (or urban areas) in Ragunda Municipality:[2]
Locality | Population | ||
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1 | Hammarstrand | 1,061 | |
2 | 627 | ||
3 | 523 | ||
4 | 294 |
The municipal seat in bold
This is a demographic table based on Ragunda Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[3]
In total there were 5,204 residents, including 3,983 Swedish citizens of voting age.[3] 55.2% voted for the left coalition and 43.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | |||||||
Döviken | 773 | 608 | 55.3 | 42.7 | 83 | 91 | 9 | 22,141 | 21 | ||||||||
Fors | 1,170 | 885 | 49.6 | 48.5 | 79 | 83 | 17 | 20,266 | 19 | ||||||||
Hammaren | 1,930 | 1,455 | 58.0 | 41.2 | 81 | 83 | 17 | 22,337 | 22 | ||||||||
Stugubyn | 1,331 | 1,035 | 57.4 | 41.2 | 87 | 93 | 7 | 23,599 | 26 | ||||||||
Source: SVT |