Staffanstorp Municipality

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**Staffanstorp Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Skåne in Sweden Staffanstorp Municipality and Staffanstorp in Skåne Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Staffanstorp
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	County	Skåne County
	Province	Scania
	Area Rank	107 km² 271st of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	20,394 116th of 290
	Density	189.5/km²

Staffanstorp Municipality is a municipality in Skåne in southernmost Sweden where the Scanian town Staffanstorp (pop. 13,500) is seat.

In the municipality there are two villages which have grown to suburbs, Staffanstorp with 13,600 inhabitants and Hjärup with 3,500 inhabitants, which both are typical residential districts dominated by detached houses build in the second half of the 20th century, wherefrom most people commute for work in the nearby cities of Lund and Malmö.

Uppåkra, the previous location for the city of Lund, is located between Hjärup and Staffanstorp.