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Division of District Download, vector is a geographical division of Sweden mainly used for statistical purposes. districts are shown as areas, district codes and district names. The division of district comprise 2523 areas. The product name in Swedish is Distriktsindelning Nedladdning, vektor.
About this product
The division of district is based on the territorial division into parishes as of December 31, 1999, prior to the Swedish Church's separation from the state at state at the year-end 1999/2000.
Read more about Districts in Förordning (2015:493) om distrikt (new window) and in Lantmäteriet's regulations on districts, LMFS 2015: 5 (in Swedish, pdf, new window).
Geographical selection: Sweden
Delivery formats: GeoPackage
Coordinate systems: SWEREF 99 TM (EPSG:3006)
Maintenance and update frequency
The division of district is static and applies from 1 January 2016 and valid until otherwise decided.
Documentation
For a more detailed description of the content, read the following:
- Product description, Distriktsindelning Nedladdning, vektor (in Swedish, pdf, new window)
- Product description, Division of District Download, vector (pdf, new window)
- Code list, Division of District Download, vector (xlsx, new window)
- Reference table, version 2 (xlsx, new window)
showing the relationship between districts and the parishes division in 2015.
Order product
The product is provided as open data. Place your order in Geotorget Order.
The license and what it means
Our open spatial data is available under the open data license Creative Commons, (CC0). The license means that you may use, distribute, redo, modify and build on Lantmäteriet's open data.
This also applies in commercial contexts without any restrictions. Feel free to list Lantmäteriet as the source when you disseminate our open data, but this is not a requirement.