Mark Municipality

Marks kommun
County	Västra Götaland County
Province	Västergötland
Seat	Kinna
Area  • Total area  • Land area	112th of 290 933 km²
Population  • Total	x of 290 33,356 inhabitants
Density  • Total	36 inhabitants/km²
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Population as of 2005

Mark Municipality (Marks kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County, western Sweden. Its seat is located in the largest town Kinna. The municipality was created with the municipal reform of 1971 by the amalgamation of eight previous entities. Most of them had themselves been formed by the 1952 municipal reform. The number of original (as of 1863) entities is nineteen. The name of the municipality stems from an old hundred which had approximately the same area.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was created and granted with the municipality in the 1970s. The circles in coat of arms come the 16th century insignia of the Mark hundred. The grain signifies the farming industry; and the thing at the right is a weaving tool; because the municipality had, and still has, a strong textile industry.

Sister cities

Mark has three sister cities. They have been focusing on towns or municipalities that also had a significant textile industry.

• Szamotuly in Poland (since 1988). Sparked because of the awakened awareness of Nuclear power in Szamotuly, who wanted contacts with Swedish cities because of Sweden's ongoing nuclear debates.
• Apolda in eastern Germany (circa 1994/1995)
• Ontinyent in Spain (since 2003)

External links

• Mark - Official site