Helsingborg is a town and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Sk�ne County, Sweden. It had 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the �resund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city Helsing�r clearly visible on the other side of the �resundabout 4 km to the west.
Between 1912 and 1971 the name of the town was officially spelled H�lsingborg (rather like H�lsingland but unlike Helsing�r and Helsingfors/Helsinki).
Historic Helsingborg, with its many old buildings, is a scenic coastal city. The buildings are a blend of old-style stone-built churches and a medieval fortress (K�rnan) in the city centre, which has stood guard in Helsingborg for over 600 years, and more modern commercial buildings. The streets vary from wide avenues to small alley-ways. Kullagatan, the main pedestrian shopping street in the city, was the first pedestrian shopping street in Sweden
