Ljungby
Sign in to saveLjungby () 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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Article
23 sectionsContents
- 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.