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Ängelholm Municipality

Ängelholm Municipality
Ängelholms kommun
Municipality
Coat of arms of Ängelholm Municipality
Coat of arms
Ängelholm Municipality in Scania County.png
Country Sweden
County Skåne County
Seat Ängelholm
Area
 • Total 478.06 km2 (184.58 sq mi)
 • Land 420.06 km2 (162.19 sq mi)
 • Water 58 km2 (22 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2014.
Population (December 31, 2016)
 • Total 41,336
 • Density 86/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Scania
Municipal code 1292
Website www.engelholm.se

Ängelholm Municipality (Ängelholms kommun) is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Ängelholm.

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 manufacturer Koenigsegg.

A notable landmark is the UFO memorial at Ängelholm. It is a model of a flying saucer on a site, situated on a site, where on 18 May 1946 a UFO allegedly landed.

There are 9 urban areas (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 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

1) A minor part of Vejbystrand is in Båstad Municipality

The municipality is twinned with:

Coordinates: 56°15′N 12°51′E / 56.250°N 12.850°E / 56.250; 12.850


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