Ängelholm Municipality

Coordinates: 56°15′N 12°51′E / 56.250°N 12.850°E / 56.250; 12.850
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Ängelholm Municipality
Ängelholms kommun
Municipal code
1292
Websitewww.engelholm.se

Ängelholm Municipality (Ängelholms kommun) is a

Scania County in South Sweden in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Ängelholm
.

In 1971 the City of Ängelholm was amalgamated with the rural municipalities Ausås, Barkåkra, Hjärnarp and Munka-Ljungby, thus creating a municipality of unitary type. In 1974 a parish from the dissolved municipality Östra Ljungby was added.

Ängelholm was until recently the home of a major

airforce base. The base is now closed down and the premises taken over by the supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg
.

A notable landmark is the

, situated on a site where a UFO allegedly landed 18 May 1946.

Localities

There are 9 urban areas (also called a tätort, or locality) in Ängelholm 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.

# Locality Population
1 Ängelholm 22,533
2 Munka-Ljungby 2,877
3 Vejbystrand 1) 2,764
4 Strövelstorp 1,012
5 Hjärnarp 871
6 Skepparkroken 705
7 Svenstorp 238
8 Margretetorp 211
9 Höja 200

1) A minor part of Vejbystrand is in Båstad Municipality

Demographics

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

SCB official statistics.[3]

In total there were 43,599 residents, including 34,038 Swedish citizens of voting age.[3] 37.9% voted for the left coalition and 61.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

International relations

The municipality is

twinned with:[4]

See also

  • Linjeflyg flight 277

References

  1. ^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. ^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
  3. ^
    SVT
    . 11 September 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Våra vänorter - Ängelholms kommun". www.engelholm.se. Archived from the original on 2010-08-13.

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