Ängelholm Municipality

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Ängelholms kommun
County Skåne County
Province Scania
Seat Ängelholm
Area
 • Total area
 • Land area
206th of 290
433.40 km²
422.55 km²
Population
 • Total
56th of 290
38,682 inhabitants
Density
 • Total
51st of 290
91.5 inhabitants/km²
Website http://www.engelholm.se/
Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Ängelholm Municipality (Ängelholms kommun) is a municipality in Skåne County 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 UFO memorial at Ängelholm. It is a model of a flying saucer on a site, situated on a site, where on May 18th, 1946 a UFO allegedly landed.

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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 December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

# Locality Population
1 Ängelholm 22,532
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

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