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Linköping is situated about 200 km southwest of Sweden’s capital Stockholm. Linköping is Sweden’s seventh largest city with about 100 000 inhabitants and the municipality is Sweden’s fifth largest with its 140 000 inhabitants. The city motto is “Where ideas become reality” and refers to the mixture of high-tech industries and the university located in Linköping.

Linköping traces its history back to the 11^th century, when the fundaments of what later became Linköping Cathedral were laid. As is common throughout history, Linköping as a religious center also became a center for learning, and had many of Sweden’s earliest educational centers.

The modern city has grown vastly since the Second World War; initially due to being the home of the aviation branch of SAAB. In 1975 the technical college became a full university, which brought a swing in the local job market towards high-technology companies which have been dominant since the 1980’s. Together with neighbouring town Norrköping, Linköping markets itself as “Twin cities of Sweden”.

Linköping University has about 26 000 students, is located on four campuses: Campus Valla and the University hospital in Linköping, Campus Norrköping in Norrköping, and Carl Malmsten School of furniture design is located at Lidingö in Stockholm.

For more information please visit:

Wikipedia article on Linköping

Linköping Municipality

Linköping tourism guide

Twin cities of Sweden