Nässjö Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 counties...

 in Jönköping County

Jönköping County

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, southern Sweden

Sweden

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 where the town Nässjö

Nässjö

Nässjö is a locality and the seat of Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 16,463 inhabitants in 2005.-History:Nässjö was for a long time only a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. The turning point was the construction of the Swedish railway system. The southern...

 is situated.

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Nässjö (instituted in 1914) was amalgamated with five surrounding municipalities.

Localities

There are 11 urban area

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...

s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Nässjö 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	Nässjö Nässjö Nässjö is a locality and the seat of Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 16,463 inhabitants in 2005.-History:Nässjö was for a long time only a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. The turning point was the construction of the Swedish railway system. The southern...	16,463
2	Bodafors Bodafors Bodafors is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 1,982 inhabitants in 2005....	1,982
2	Forserum Forserum Forserum is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 1,982 inhabitants in 2005....	1,982
4	Malmbäck Malmbäck Malmbäck is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 1,016 inhabitants in 2005....	1,016
5	Anneberg Anneberg, Nässjö Anneberg is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 874 inhabitants in 2005....	874
6	Solberga Solberga, Nässjö Solberga is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 419 inhabitants in 2005....	419
7	Grimstorp Grimstorp Grimstorp is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 385 inhabitants in 2005....	385
8	Fredriksdal Fredriksdal Fredriksdal is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 318 inhabitants in 2005....	318
9	Äng Äng Äng is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 301 inhabitants in 2005....	301
10	Flisby Flisby Flisby is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 215 inhabitants in 2005....	215
11	Stensjön Stensjön Stensjön is a locality situated in Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 208 inhabitants in 2005....	208

Sister cities

Nässjö has had two sister cities since the 1940s: Brønderslev

Brønderslev

Brønderslev is a town with a population of 11,840 . It is the municipal seat of Brønderslev municipality, Vendsyssel in Region Nordjylland, the northernmost part of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark....

 in Denmark and Eidsberg

Eidsberg

Eidsberg is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Mysen. Neighboring municipalities are Rakkestad, Askim, Skiptvet, Trøgstad, and Marker in Østfold, and Aurskog-Høland in Akershus....

in Norway.

External links

• Nässjö Municipality - Official site
• Coat of arms