Perstorp is a

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and the seat of

Perstorp Municipality Perstorp Municipality (''Perstorps kommun'') is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Perstorp. Perstorp was made a market town (''köping'') in 1947. It was amalgamated with ''Oderljunga'' in the fir ...

Skåne County Skåne County ( sv, Skåne län, link=no ), sometimes referred to as Scania County in English, is the most southern county, or , of Sweden, basically corresponding to the traditional province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronobe ...

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with 6,054 inhabitants (2018). It is twinned with Newton Aycliffe, a town in the North-East of

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History

19th Century

Modernization of Sweden: 1860–1910

Prior to the municipal reforms of 1862, Perstorp was, just as all local governments, based on a church parish and was integrated with the church. Following the municipal reforms, it became a part of the rural municipality of Perstorp. On 23 May 1935, the municipal community of Perstorp was established.

20th Century

Post-war Sweden

In 1947, the rural municipality and the municipal community merged into the . With the 1971 municipal reforms, it became a part of one of the 290 Swedish municipalities, the Municipality of Perstorp. Until 1971, the village was part of the Norra Åsbo district court. From 1971 to 2001 it was part of the district court of Klippan, since 2001 it has been part of the district court of Helsingborg.

Demography

According t
a 2015 statistic
there was a total population of 5 847 people, distributed over 576

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(5.76 km²) within the Perstorp municipality. This amounts to ca. 10,15 people per hectare, or about one person per square kilometre.

Sports

Perstorp is home to Perstorp Bälinge Sports Club (PBIK, Perstorp Bälinge Idrotssklub), which was formed by a merger in 2012 of Perstorp Sports Club and Bälinge Boll och Idrottsklubb.PBIK homepage
/ref> Notable athletes from the locality include former

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and

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player Isabelle Haak.

References

Municipal seats of Skåne County Swedish municipal seats Populated places in Skåne County Populated places in Perstorp Municipality {{Skåne-geo-stub