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Ljungby Municipality (Kommun)

Sweden with Kronoberg Country highlighted Kronoberg County; Ljungby Mun. in the west Map outlining the municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms Image:Ljungby City Arms.gif
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Ljungby
	56° 49′ N 13° 55′ E
	County	Kronoberg County
	Province	Småland
	Area Rank	1,757 km² 49th of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	27,004 86th of 290
	Population density	467/km²

Ljungby Municipality is a Swedish municipality in Kronoberg County, in southern Sweden where the town Ljungby is seat with 14,500 inhabitants.

Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Notability 3.1 Born here 4 External links

Ljungby is located in what Swedes call darkest Småland, referring to the area's land-locked and dense forests.

However, Ljungby contains a little more plains than average Småland. Lakes, forests and plains are never far away. They are everywhere in Ljungby, according to the residents themselves. The tenth largest lake in Sweden, the Bolmen, is located in the north-western part of the municipality. The town is visited by thousands of tourists, mainly German, every summer.

Ljungby traces its history back to the Viking Age. 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 city.

During the 19th century the area closest to the city 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.

Ljungby received its rights as a merchant city in 1828, and in 1936 it got its charter.

• Cliff Burton was the bassist of the band Metallica who died on a country road within the municipality when the band's bus crashed on September 27, 1986.
• The opera singer Christina Nilsson was discovered while performing at the Ljungby market.

• John Lind, Governor of Minnesota (1899 – 1901), in Kånna Parish.
• Olof Johansson (b. 1931), politician, former president of the Swedish Centre Party.
• Olov Svebilius, Archbishop of Uppsala 1681 – 1700.

• (Swedish) Ljungby - Official site

Kronoberg County

Alvesta | Lessebo | Ljungby | Markaryd | Tingsryd | Uppvidinge | Växjö | Älmhult

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