Nybro Municipality (''Nybro kommun'') is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

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. G ...

, south-eastern Sweden, with its seat in the town

Nybro Nybro (, outdatedly ) is a city and the seat of Nybro Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 13,583 inhabitants in 2020. Overview Nybro was founded as a rest area for travellers on the road between Växjö in the west and Kalmar in the east. ...

. The amalgamation of the ''City of Nybro'' (instituted in 1932) with its surrounding municipalities took place in 1969. The municipality was inhabited by a few hundred people until the railways came in the late 19th century, and the town Nybro was in its location between

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 ...

on the east coast and Gothenburg on the west coast; later also on the railway from

and

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal pop ...

in the south-west. Until then Nybro mostly consisted of minor industries, including a match factory, marked by its traditionally Småland forest nature, largely unsuitable for

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

. Nybro Municipality is in the eastern part of the "

Kingdom of Crystal The Kingdom of Crystal (Swedish: ''Glasriket'', ''The glass realm'') is a geographical area today containing a total of 14 glassblowing, glassworks in the Municipalities of Sweden, municipalities of Emmaboda, Nybro, Uppvidinge, and Lessebo in so ...

" area (Swedish: ''Glasriket''), that covers a total of four municipalities.

Localities

There are nine

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s (also called localities, Swedish: ''tätorter'') in Nybro 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

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from Nordisk Familjebok Municipalities of Kalmar County {{Kalmar-geo-stub

Localities

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