Ängelholm Municipality () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Scania County Scania ( ), also known by its native name of Skåne (), is the southernmost of the historical provinces () of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skåne County, cr ...

South Sweden South Sweden () is a national area () of Sweden. The national areas are a part of the NUTS statistical regions of Sweden. Geography South Sweden is situated in the southern part of its country. It is close to Denmark and it borders with the of ...

in southern

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. Its seat is located in the city

Ängelholm Ängelholm is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and the seat of Ängelholm Municipality in Skåne, Scania, Sweden with 42,131 inhabitants in 2017. History The city was founded in 1516 as Engelholm by King Christian II of Denmark, who moved the se ...

. 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

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manufacturer

Koenigsegg Koenigsegg Automotive AB () is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars based in Ängelholm, Skåne County, Sweden. Koenigsegg cars have on several occasions broken various production car speed records. Company The company w ...

. A notable landmark is the UFO memorial at Ängelholm. It is a model of a

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, situated on a site where a UFO allegedly landed 18 May 1946.

Localities

There are 9

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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 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters. 1) A minor part of Vejbystrand is in

Båstad Municipality Båstad Municipality () is a Municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Skåne County in South Sweden, located in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Båstad. The present municipality was established in 1971 when the market town (''köping' ...

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Ängelholm Municipality's electoral districts in the

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sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 43,599 residents, including 34,038 Swedish citizens of voting age. 37.9% voted for the left coalition and 61.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

International relations

The municipality is twinned with: *

Høje-Taastrup Municipality Høje-Taastrup Municipality () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in the Capital Region on the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of , and has a total population of 59,059 (1. January 2025 ...

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Maaninka Maaninka (, also ) is a former municipality in the region of Northern Savonia, in Finland. It was merged with the city of Kuopio on 1 January 2015. The municipality had a population of 3,747 (30 November 2014) and it covered an area of of which ...

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(

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)

References

External links

Ängelholm
- Official website
Ängelholm Tourist Office
(English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Angelholm Municipality Ängelholm Municipality Municipalities of Skåne County

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Demographics

International relations

See also

References

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