Nybro Municipality () is a

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, south-eastern

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, with its seat in the town

Nybro Nybro (, outdatedly ) is a city status in Sweden, city and the seat of Nybro Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 13,583 inhabitants in 2020. Overview Nybro was founded as a rest area for travellers on the road between Växjö in the west and ...

. The amalgamation of the ''City of Nybro'' (instituted in 1932) with its surrounding municipalities took place in 1969. The municipality was inhabited by a few hundred people until the railways came in the late 19th century, and the town Nybro was in its location between

Kalmar Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 41,388 inhabitants in 2020 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...

on the east coast and

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on the west coast; later also on the railway from

and

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in the south-west. Until then Nybro mostly consisted of minor industries, including a match factory, marked by its traditionally

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forest nature, largely unsuitable for

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. Nybro Municipality is in the eastern part of the "

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" area (Swedish: ''Glasriket''), that covers a total of four municipalities.

Localities

There are nine

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s (also called localities, Swedish: ''tätorter'') in Nybro Municipality. In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Nybro 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 20,252 residents, including 15,131 Swedish citizens of voting age. 45.9% voted for the left coalition and 52.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

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Official site

from

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Municipalities of Kalmar County {{Kalmar-geo-stub

Localities

Demographics

See also

References

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