Ljungby

Ljungby () is the central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Ljungby
Settlement.image_skyline: Ljungby Storgatan.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Storgatan with Ljungby Church in the background.
Settlement.image_shield: Ljungby vapen.svg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Sweden Kronoberg#Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Ljungby Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Kronoberg County
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Småland
Settlement.area_total_km2: 11.93
Settlement.population_as_of: 31 December 2010
Settlement.population_total: 15,205
Settlement.population_density_km2: 1274
Settlement.timezone: CET

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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections

Contents

History
The town centre fire of 1953
Aftermath
Administration
Transport
Business and education
Gymnasium
College
Culture
Churches and religious communities
Church of Sweden
Ljungby församling
Ljungby Maria Församling
Annelundkyrkan
Other
Sport
Famous people from Ljungby
Art and Culture
Sport
Demographic
Climate
References
External links

Ljungby () is the 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 of its own when the first local government acts took effect in 1863, but retained part of the surrounding rural municipality of the same name. In 1936 Ljungby got the title , Swedish for Town or City. Since 1971 Ljungby is the seat of Ljungby Municipality.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ljungby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.