Älmhult () is a

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and the seat of Älmhult Municipality in

Kronoberg County Kronoberg County (; sv, Kronobergs län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. Kronoberg is one of three counties in the province of Småland. It borders the counties of Skåne, Halland, Jönköping, Kalmar, and Blekinge. Its capital is ...

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with 8,955 inhabitants in 2010. It was in Älmhult that the first

IKEA IKEA (; ) is a Dutch multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands that designs and sells , kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA has been t ...

(the Swedish furniture company) store was built. IKEA continues to have a large corporate presence there. A museum of IKEA's history, the

IKEA Museum The IKEA Museum is a museum located in Älmhult, Sweden, that opened to the public on June 30, 2016. It presents the history of the Swedish furnishing company IKEA IKEA (; ) is a Dutch multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands tha ...

, opened in the town on 30 June 2016. It was constructed to present the history of

. Visitors to Älmhult can also experience th
IKEA Hotel
which opened in 1964 and is situated near IKEA's offices and opposite the IKEA Museum. The botanist

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

was born in

Råshult Råshult is a village just north of Älmhult in Kronoberg County, Småland, Sweden. It is notable as the birthplace of the seminal biologist and "father of modern taxonomy", Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ...

, Stenbrohult, now part of Älmhult municipality. Älmhult has a local gymnasium called Haganässkolan, and also an International School up to Grade 10. Haganässkolan is an

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authorized world school offering the IB Diploma Programme since August 2017. The school also offers a preparatory year, the Pre-Diploma Programme.

References

Municipal seats of Kronoberg County Swedish municipal seats Populated places in Kronoberg County Populated places in Älmhult Municipality Värend {{Kronoberg-geo-stub fi:Älmhultin kunta