Ljungby Municipality () is a

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Kronoberg County Kronoberg County (; ) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. Kronoberg is one of three counties in the province of Småland. It borders the counties of Skåne, Halland, Jönköping, Kalmar, and Blekinge. Its capital is the city of V ...

, southern

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, where the town

Ljungby Ljungby () is the Urban areas in Sweden, central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015. Ljungby was instituted in 1829 as a ''köping'', or ''market town'', and did not become a municipality o ...

is seat. In 1971 the ''City of Ljungby'' (1936-1970) was amalgamated with the rural municipalities surrounding it, thus creating the present municipality. In 1974 a minor adjustment of the boundaries took place. There are 19 original entities within the area.

Geography

Ljungby Municipality contains a little more plains than average in

Småland Småland () is a historical Provinces of Sweden, province () in southern Sweden. Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name ''Småland'' literally means "small la ...

. Lakes, forests and plains are never far away. The tenth largest lake in Sweden, Bolmen, is located in the north-western part of the municipality. The town Ljungby is visited by thousands of tourists, mainly from Germany, every summer.

Localities

There are 8

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s (also called a ''tätort'' or locality) in Ljungby Municipality. In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters. The small village of

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is also located within Ljungby Municipality.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Ljungby Municipality's electoral districts in the

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sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 28,396 inhabitants, including 21,191 Swedish citizens of voting age. 40.8% voted for the left coalition and 57.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

History

Ljungby Municipality traces its history back to the

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. Vikings followed the river Lagan and lived in its vicinity, and one of the locations were in what is now Ljungby Municipality. In the 14th century several important medieval roads went through the municipality. In that century, an inn was established, and this was to form the center of Ljungby town. During the 19th century the area closest to Ljungby itself consisted mostly of sand without any vegetation, and the government released funds to plant trees which would tie together the sand and make it suitable for plants.

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Ljungby: * Ås, Akershus fylke,

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* Paimio, Southwest Finland,

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Notability

*The opera singer

Christina Nilsson Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, also called Christine Nilsson (20 August 1843 – 22 November 1921) was a Swedish operatic dramatic coloratura soprano. Possessed of a pure and brilliant voice (B3-F6), first three then two and a ha ...

was discovered while performing at the Ljungby market in 1857. *

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bassist Cliff Burton died on a highway within the municipality when the band's tour bus overturned on 27 September 1986.

Born here

Eskil Erlandsson Lars Eskil Anders Erlandsson (born 25 January 1957) is a Swedish people, Swedish politician who served as Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Rural Affairs from 2010 to 2014, having previously served as Minister for Agriculture from 2006 to 20 ...

born in Torpa 1957. Former chairman of the Swedish Defence Committee (2002-2006) and current Agriculture ministry(2006-). * John Lind,

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(1899–1901), born in Kånna parish. * Olof Johansson (b. 1931), politician, former president of the Swedish Centre Party. * Peter Westerstrøm, mass murderer executed in Norway in 1809.

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Ljungby Municipality
- Official site {{authority control Municipalities of Kronoberg County