Like most Swedish municipalities it was created during the municipal reform in the early seventies, combining several earlier local government units of urban and rural type, among them the City of Karlskrona.There are 18 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Karlskrona Municipality.This is a demographic table based on Karlskrona Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[3] In total there were 66,647 residents, including 50,805 Swedish citizens of voting age.Parishes ordered by city and hundreds: Karlskrona is twinned with:[4]