Åseda
Encyclopedia
Åseda is a locality
and the seat of Uppvidinge Municipality
, Kronoberg County
, Sweden
with 2,430 inhabitants in 2005.
Åseda is the birthplace of motorcycle speedway
rider Peter Ljung
.
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 Uppvidinge Municipality
Uppvidinge Municipality
Uppvidinge Municipality is a municipality in Kronoberg County, southern Sweden, with its seat in the town of Åseda.The present municipality, which took its name from a hundred, was formed by the local government reform of 1971 when Lenhovda, Nottebäck, Åseda and Älghult were amalgamated. The...
, Kronoberg County
Kronoberg County
Kronoberg County is a County or län in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Skåne, Halland, Jönköping, Kalmar and Blekinge. Its capital is the city Växjö.- Province :For History, Geography and Culture see: Småland...
, 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....
with 2,430 inhabitants in 2005.
Åseda is the birthplace of motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...
rider Peter Ljung
Peter Ljung (speedway rider)
Peter Ljung is a Swedish motorcycle speedway rider. He is a two-time Speedway Grand Prix participant: he got wild cards in 2003 and 2004. He was part of the winning Swedish team in the 2003 Speedway World Team Cup...
.