Uppvidinge Municipality () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

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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, with its seat in the town of

Åseda Åseda is a locality and the seat of Uppvidinge Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 2,430 inhabitants in 2010. Åseda was the birthplace of the chemist Otto Folin (1867–1934), and of the motorcycle speedway rider Peter Ljung (born 1982) ...

. The present municipality, which took its name from a

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numerals, Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 (number), 99 and preceding 101 (number), 101. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (number), 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standar ...

, was formed by the local government reform of 1971 when ''Lenhovda'', ''Nottebäck'', ''Åseda'' and ''Älghult'' were amalgamated. The number of original entities, as of 1863, is six. The first amalgamation in the area (Granhult merged with Nottebäck) took place already in 1915. The municipality has a rather small population but its slogan states "In a Small Municipality Man Becomes Large". More than 80% of the area is covered with forests, making it live up to the general public's impression of the "dark" province of

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 ...

. The name ''Uppvidinge'' itself means something like forest on a hill. The coat of arms is based on the insignia of

Uppvidinge Hundred Uppvidinge Municipality () is a municipality in Kronoberg County, southern Sweden, with its seat in the town of Åseda. The present municipality, which took its name from a hundred, was formed by the local government reform of 1971 when ''Lenhov ...

, from a document from 1568. It depicts a herb of unknown species in a red color.

Localities

There are 5

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s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Uppvidinge 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 Uppvidinge Municipality's electoral districts in the

2022 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 11 September 2022 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag who in turn elected the Prime Minister of Sweden. Under the constitution, regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The pr ...

sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 9,423 residents, including 6,679 Swedish citizens of voting age. 40.4% voted for the left coalition and 58.1% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

References

Notes

Statistics Sweden

External links

Uppvidinge Municipality
- Official site

{{Authority control Municipalities of Kronoberg County