Ängelholm 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 Skåne County

Skåne County

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 in southern Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. Its seat is located in the city Ängelholm

Ängelholm

Ängelholm is a locality and the seat of Ängelholm Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden with 22,532 inhabitants in 2005.It is known for its clay cuckoos — a special kind of ocarina. This is however a dying tradition as there is now only one producer of clay cuckoos, Sofia Nilsson.Tourism is an...

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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

Supercar

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 manufacturer Koenigsegg

Koenigsegg

Koenigsegg Automotive AB is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars based in Ängelholm.-Company:The company was founded in 1994 in Sweden by Christian von Koenigsegg, with the intention of producing a world-class supercar...

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A notable landmark is the UFO memorial at Ängelholm

UFO-Memorial Ängelholm

The UFO-Memorial Ängelholm is a shrine dedicated to a supposed UFO landing in Kronoskogen, a suburb of Ängelholm, Sweden. Few such memorials exist in Europe...

. It is a model of a flying saucer on a site, situated on a site, where on May 18th, 1946 a UFO allegedly landed.

Localities

There are 9 urban area

Urban areas in Sweden

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s (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 Ängelholm Ängelholm is a locality and the seat of Ängelholm Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden with 22,532 inhabitants in 2005.It is known for its clay cuckoos — a special kind of ocarina. This is however a dying tradition as there is now only one producer of clay cuckoos, Sofia Nilsson.Tourism is an...	22,533
2	Munka-Ljungby Munka-Ljungby Munka-Ljungby is a locality situated in Ängelholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 2,877 inhabitants in 2005....	2,877
3	Vejbystrand Vejbystrand Vejbystrand is a bimunicipal locality situated in Sweden with 2,764 inhabitants in 2005. The majority of its population lives in Ängelholm Municipality and a minority in Båstad Municipality, both in Skåne County....  1)	2,764
4	Strövelstorp Strövelstorp Strövelstorp is a locality situated in Ängelholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 1,012 inhabitants in 2005....	1,012
5	Hjärnarp Hjärnarp Hjärnarp is a locality situated in Ängelholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 871 inhabitants in 2005....	871
6	Skepparkroken Skepparkroken Skepparkroken is a locality situated in Ängelholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 705 inhabitants in 2005....	705
7	Svenstorp Svenstorp Svenstorp is a locality in Ängelholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden. It had 238 inhabitants in 2005....	238
8	Margretetorp Margretetorp Margretetorp is a locality situated in Ängelholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 211 inhabitants in 2005....	211
9	Höja Höja Höja is a locality situated in Ängelholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 200 inhabitants in 2005....	200

1) A minor part of Vejbystrand is in Båstad Municipality

Båstad Municipality

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International relations

The municipality is twinned with:

Høje-Taastrup Municipality, Denmark

Denmark

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 Maaninka

Maaninka

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, Finland

Finland

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Dobele

Dobele

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, Latvia

Latvia

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 Kamen

Kamen

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, Germany

Germany

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 (North Rhine-Westphalia

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)

External links

• Ängelholm - Official site (Swedish)
• Coat of arms
• Ängelholm Tourist Office (English)