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Viken is a bimunicipal locality situated in Höganäs Municipality and Helsingborg Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden with 4,227 inhabitants in 2010.〔 It has a surface area of 224 hectares. 223 of these are in the Höganäs municipality. Well known for its harbour, the village has a long history of seafaring and fishing. It is also known for the distinctive changing rooms lining its coast. Viken is known to have been the home of billionaire Carl-Eric Björkegren, who disappeared without a trace in 1994. Theories vary in terms of what happened. In 2005, he was declared dead by the Stockholm District Court. The creator of the Swedish comic character Bamse lived and died in Viken. ==Etymology== Viken is the definite form (the noun + the definite suffix -en) of the Old Norse word ''vík'' meaning an inlet or creek (UK).〔''Norwegian-English Dictionary'' (Einar Haugen. University of Wisconsin Press. page 483)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Viken, Sweden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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