Torpa is a village in

Ydre Municipality Ydre Municipality (''Ydre kommun'') is a municipality in Östergötland County, southeast Sweden. The municipal seat is located in the town of Österbymo. The municipality was created through the local government reform of 1952, when six former ...

Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or '' län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to the ...

. It lies in the traditional province of Östergötland along the shores of Lake Sommen the in

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. According to Svenskt ortnamnslexikon the name of the locality is first attested in 1281 as Thorpum, possibly in reference as "new settlement".

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Villages in Sweden Populated lakeshore places in Sweden Populated places in Ydre Municipality Sommen {{Östergötland-geo-stub