Staffanstorp

Staffanstorp is a locality and the seat of Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 14,808 inhabitants in 2010. Staffanstorp is the largest Scanian settlement that never acquired town privileges before their abolishment in Sweden in 1971.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Staffanstorp
Settlement.image_skyline: Staffanstorps gästgivaregård.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Staffanstorps gästgivaregård in March 2012
Settlement.image_shield: Staffanstorp vapen.svg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Sweden Skåne#Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Staffanstorp Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Skåne County
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Skåne
Settlement.area_total_km2: 6.63
Settlement.population_as_of: 31 December 2022
Settlement.population_total: 31,718
Settlement.population_density_km2: 2235
Settlement.timezone: CET

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Staffanstorp
Population: 17838
Area: 960
Image: Staffanstorp kommunhus.jpg

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Geography
History
Schools
Notable people
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==Geography == 250px|left|thumb|Staffanstorp has a suburban character dominated by 1- and 1½-story buildings. 250px|left|thumb|The 12th century Brågarp Church. The church tower, however, is a 19th-century extension 250px|right|thumb|Location of the town and municipality of Staffanstorp The town is located at the centre of a large triangular fertile plain which reaches approximately 25 kilometres from the Øresund strait inwards in Scania. The base of the triangle follows the coast, approximately 25 kilometres starting in Malmö in the south.