tisdag 14 oktober 2008

Municipalities around Gislaved

Värnamo

Värnamo municipality is south east of Gislaved. The municipality of Värnamo has the same size of population like Gislaved (Gislaved 29 000, Värnamo 32 000), but the town of Värnamo is almost twice the population of Gislaved town, with 18 000 inhabitants. While Gislaved is an industrial town with factories, Värnamo is more focused in shops and is considered Jönköpings län's southern market town. The downtown is well developed with alot of shops and shoppings. Värnamo also have a big hospital, the largest in the län outside Jönköping.


Gnosjö

This is one of the smaller municipalities in the country with its 9600 inhabitants, while Gnosjö town has 4000 citizens. Gnosjö doesnt have many things by them self ad are very dependent on Gislaved but also Värnamo. Many students in Gnosjö municipality go to study somewhere in Gislaved. Many things are limited, and its questioned if Gnosjö should continue to exist as a municipality, if this day come it will be a part of Gislaved. The only reason why the munucipality survived so long is cause of the rich industry and economy.


Jönköping

Jönköping municipality is the biggest in the län, and its here were the ruling residential city is placed, Jönköping. It is the 10:th largest municipality in Sweden with its 123 700 inhabitants, the city of Jönköping has a population of 84 000 citizens. Jönköping is placed on the banks of the lake Vättern. Jönköping is a rich market city and also industrial. It has good city busses and have some shopping centers, not to forget A6.

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