Norra Kvill (literally ''North Kvill'') is a small national park (established in 1927) near

Vimmerby Vimmerby () is a city and the seat of Vimmerby Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 10,934 inhabitants in 2010. Overview Stångån is a small river running through the city. Vimmerby had its charter as early as the fourteenth century. The ...

Kalmar Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...

county, Småland, southeastern Sweden. A few kilometers from the park is the

Rumskulla oak The Rumskulla oak, also known as the Kvill oak, is an oak tree (''Quercus robur'')

, Europe's largest

English oak ''Quercus robur'', commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. It is a large tree, native plant, native to most of Europe west of the Caucasus ...

with a circumference of about . The oak is thought to be about 1 000 years old.

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Sweden's National Parks: Norra Kvill National Park
from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency National parks of Sweden Protected areas established in 1927 1927 establishments in Sweden Geography of Kalmar County Tourist attractions in Kalmar County {{Protected-area-stub