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Arvika is a locality and the seat of Arvika Municipality, Värmland County, with 14,244 inhabitants (2010). The town is situated at an elevation of 58 m at Kyrkviken, a bay of Glafsfjorden, Sweden's only inland fjord, a remnant of the time following the last ice age (once a fjord of the Ancylus Lake).

The town was a village until 1811 when it was given town privileges by royal charter under the name Oscarsstad in order to improve the economy of the area. This attempt was unsuccessful, and the town privileges were repealed in 1821 and the town was instead given the status of köping (township) and renamed Arvika. The town privileges were reinstated at the founding centennial in 1911, and the name Arvika remained. The city status is now obsolete, but Arvika is since 1971 the seat of the larger Arvika municipality.

The Trefaldighetskyrkan (Trinity Church) [left] was built in 1911.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvika]