Hylte Municipality (''Hylte kommun'') is the only inland

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Halland County Halland County ( sv, Hallands län, link=no, ) is a county ('' län'') on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad. It borders the counties of Västra Göta ...

in southwest

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. The industrial

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Hyltebruk Hyltebruk () is a locality and the seat of Hylte Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 3,716 inhabitants in 2010. The town grew up around the paper mill owned by ''Hylte Bruks AB'', which started its operation in 1907. A railway was built in ...

is the seat of the municipality. The first Hylte Municipality was created in 1952 through the

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of three minor units in

Jönköping County Jönköping County ( sv, Jönköpings län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötland, Kalmar and Kronoberg. The total county population was 356,291 inhabitants in Sept ...

. In 1974 further amalgamations took place and the county boundary was redrawn.

Geography

The municipality straddles the boundary of two historic

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Halland Halland () is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap''), on the western coast of Götaland, southern Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Småland, Scania and the sea of Kattegat. Until 1645 and the Second Treaty of Brömsebro ...

and

Småland Småland () is a historical province () in southern Sweden. Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means ''Small Lands''. The Latinized fo ...

Localities

There are 6

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(also called a Tätort or locality) in Hylte 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.

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

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Hylte Municipality
- Official site {{authority control Municipalities of Halland County