Högsby is a locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 and the seat of Högsby Municipality

Högsby Municipality

Högsby Municipality is a municipality in Kalmar County, south-eastern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Högsby.The latest nation-wide subdivision reform in Sweden was centred around the year 1971...

, Kalmar County

Kalmar County

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, Sweden

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 with 1,965 inhabitants in 2005.
Other "big" places in the Högsby Municipality are: Långemåla, Fågelfors, Berga and Fagerhult. None of these have more than 500 inhabitants. Långemåla is probably the smallest of the mentioned.

Högsby Tätort

The village or town of Högsby is the seat of the Högsby Municipality, and one of the smallest municipalities in Kalmar County.
It has one ICA, one COOP Konsum and a small mall containing five shops; Karlsson, Art Gallery and Furniture, Mirka's makeup, RingUp and a small bakery. Högsby is also home of Högsby Educational Centre (Högsby Utbildningscenter), commonly referred to as HUC. It's a small school, with less than 160 pupils, all between 16 and 19 years old. HUC is a so called "Gymnasium" which in British and American school systems would be something in the middle between High School

High school

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 and College

College

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