Ängelholm Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Ängelholms kommun


county=Skåne County
province=Scania
capital=Ängelholm


arearank=206th
area=433.40
arealand=422.55
populationrank=56th
population=38,682
densityrank=51st
populationdensity=91.5
website=http://www.engelholm.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

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 May 18th, 1946 a UFO allegedly landed.

Localities

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 December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

1) A minor part of Vejbystrand is in Båstad Municipality

Twin towns

*flagicon|Denmark Høje-Taastrup, Denmark
*flagicon|Finland Maaninka, Finland
*flagicon|Latvia Dobele, Latvia
*flagicon|Germany Kamen, Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)

See also

* Linjeflyg flight 277

References

* [http://www.scb.se Statistics Sweden]

External links

* [http://www.kommun.engelholm.se/ Ängelholm] - Official site (Swedish)
* [http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwe/a/angelhol.htm Coat of arms]
* [http://www.turist.engelholm.se/index_gb.html Ängelholm Tourist Office] (English)