Torsås Municipality (''Torsås kommun'', Torsås meaning "

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's ridge") is the southernmost

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Kalmar County Kalmar County () is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg, Jönköping, Blekinge and Östergötland. To the east in the Baltic Sea is the island Gotland. The counties are mainly administrative units. Geo ...

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. Its seat is located in the town

Torsås Torsås () is a locality and the seat of Torsås Municipality, Kalmar 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 of ...

. The present municipality was created in 1971, when "old" Torsås was merged with Söderåkra.

Geography

The geography consists mainly of forest, not uncommon in

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province. Located by the

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, it has been somewhat cultivated too and there are some plains. Being sparsely populated, Torsås Municipality tries to attract people to settle there, boasting its nature and the advantages of a small municipality while being no more than 30 minutes away from the larger towns of

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and

Karlskrona Karlskrona (, , ) is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with a population of 66,675 in 2018. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Swed ...

Localities

There are 3

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s (''tätorter''), localities, in Torsås 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. A part of the locality

Brömsebro Brömsebro () is a bimunicipal village situated in Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County and Torsås Municipality, Kalmar County in south-east Sweden with 213 inhabitants in 2005. Two Dano-Swedish treaties were signed in Brömsebro: the First T ...

is also in the municipality.

Attractions

Points of interest in Torsås include a monument honouring the Treaty of Brömsebro between Denmark and Sweden in 1645, and the ''Garpen''

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, located on a small islet off the coast, where one can spend the night at a

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. Those interested in curiosities might also find it worthwhile to have a look at the world's largest wooden ladle, measuring tall and wide, and weighing , located in Gullabo. Gullabo Sweden wooden stirring spoon

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

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Torsås Municipality
- Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Torsas Municipality Municipalities of Kalmar County 1971 establishments in Sweden