Mjällby is a

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situated in

Sölvesborg Municipality Sölvesborg Municipality (''Sölvesborgs kommun'') is a municipality in Blekinge County in South Sweden in southern Sweden. It borders to Bromölla Municipality, Olofström Municipality and Karlshamn Municipality. The town Sölvesborg is the seat ...

Blekinge County Blekinge County ( sv, Blekinge län) is a county or '' län'' in the south of Sweden. It borders the Counties of Skåne, Kronoberg, Kalmar and the Baltic Sea. The capital is Karlskrona. It is the smallest of the present administrative countie ...

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with 1,254 inhabitants in 2010. It is located on the

Listerlandet Listerlandet is a peninsula in Sölvesborg Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden. Its main settlement is Mjällby. History Listerlandet was originally in practice an island, surrounded by the Baltic Sea to the south, west and east, and in north t ...

peninsula. The town has traditionally lived of fishing. The nearby harbour of

Nogersund Nogersund is a locality situated in Sölvesborg Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom o ...

is the third largest fishery harbour in Sweden. The fishery industry is also dominant on the peninsula. Listerlandet is also the

fur farming Fur farming is the practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur. Most of the world's farmed fur is produced by European farmers. In 2018, there were 5,000 fur farms in the EU, all located across 22 countries; these ...

centre of Sweden. Fur farming is currently under heavy political debate in Sweden. Mjällby is known for its

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team which has played in the Swedish national football league a few times. Among

fans in Sweden the team of

Mjällby AIF Mjällby Allmänna Idrottsförening, also known simply as Mjällby AIF, Mjällby or (especially locally) MAIF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Hällevik. The club is affiliated to Blekinge Fotbollförbund and play its ho ...

is known as "the team that always returns". In September 2009 the team once again qualified for the highest division and played five seasons in

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

before being relegated at the end of the 2014 season. The mathematician

Lars Hörmander Lars Valter Hörmander (24 January 1931 – 25 November 2012) was a Swedish mathematician who has been called "the foremost contributor to the modern theory of linear partial differential equations". Hörmander was awarded the Fields Medal ...

was born in Mjällby. A suburb of the town built by a local housing company was unofficially known for around 40 years by locals as ''Negerby'' (Negro village) because of the black chimneys on the houses. In 2012 the use of this name was reported by a journalist and following the public outcry the housing company decided to use the temporary name of ''Slottsstaden'' (Castle City).

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Populated places in Sölvesborg Municipality {{Blekinge-geo-stub