Bankekind

Bankekind is a locality situated in Linköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 405 inhabitants in 2010.

[1] Bankekind was earlier called Svinstad (ENG: Pigtown) but changed its name because of the pejorative connotations.

It is primarily a commuter village but had its own nursery/ pre-school, primary school (school years, 0-3) and supported housing residence for the elderly.

Bankekinds härad (Bankekind Hundred) was a hundred of Östergötland in Sweden.

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