Gothenburg Municipality

Gothenburg Municipality Göteborgs kommun
Municipality
Gothenburg City Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 57°42′N 11°56′E / 57.700°N 11.933°E / 57.700; 11.933
Country	Sweden
County	Västra Götaland County
Seat	Gothenburg
Government
• Mayor	Jonas Attenius (Social Democratic Party)
Area [1]
• Total	1,025.37 km2 (395.90 sq mi)
• Land	447.76 km2 (172.88 sq mi)
• Water	577.61 km2 (223.02 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (May 2023)[2]
• Total	600,559
• Density	590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Västergötland and Bohuslän
Municipal code	1480
Website	goteborg.se goteborg.se - ENG short description international.goteborg.se

Gothenburg Municipality (Göteborgs kommun or Göteborgs stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg.

When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founded and chartered in 1621, became a city municipality with an elected city council (stadsfullmäktige). Its territory has since then been added through amalgamations in 1868, 1906, 1922, 1931, 1945, 1948, 1967 and 1974. The local government reform of 1971 made the city a unitary municipality, like all others in the country. The municipality prefers, however, to style itself Göteborgs stad (City of Göteborg^[3]), whenever legally possible.

In March 2018 it was reported that the municipality and municipality-owned companies had 236 employees working with public relations (Swedish: kommunikation), more than Stockholm, to a cost of 400 000 SEK daily or 151 million SEK annually.^[4][5]