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Arvika
Värmlandtown
Arvika
Total population
14,052
Demographic figures from Statistics Sweden (SCB). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Arvika is a locality and the seat of Arvika Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 27,032 inhabitants in 2026.
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History
Ten kilometers west of the city, in Bergs Klätt, there are remnants of a younger Stone Age and Nordic Bronze Age settlements in the form of graves. The town was a village until 1811 when it was given town privileges by royal charter under the name Oscarsstad in order to improve the economy of the area. This attempt was unsuccessful, and the town privileges were repealed in 1821 and the town was instead given the status of köping (township) and renamed Arvika. The town privileges were reinstated at the founding centennial in 1911, and the name Arvika remained. The city status is now obsolete, but Arvika is since 1971 the seat of the larger Arvika municipality. The church Mikaelikyrkan is from 1647, and the church in the centre, Trefaldighetskyrkan, is from the same year as the town, 1911.
Geography
The town of Arvika is situated at Kyrkviken, a bay of Glafsfjorden, Sweden's only inland fjord, a remnant of the time following the last ice age (once a fjord of the Ancylus Lake). The town is located approximately 380 km west of Stockholm, 250 km north of Gothenburg, 150 km east of Oslo, and 50 km from the Norwegian border. The area is hilly with the tallest hill Storkasberget close to the town centre. Arvika and its surroundings have excellent water infrastructure. In fact, Arvika has the innermost harbour in the whole of Sweden. Through a system of canals, lake Vänern can be reached, and from there the Göta Canal allows further passage to Gothenburg and Sweden's west coast.
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Official Identifiers
SCB — Statistics Sweden
- Kommunkod
- 1784
- Population (Wikidata)
- 25,374
- Wikidata
- Q511365
Kommunkod via Wikidata P525
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • SCB — Statistics Sweden — Kommunkod via Wikidata P525