Smålänningen is a newspaper which is published three days a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) in

Kronoberg County Kronoberg County (; ) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. Kronoberg is one of three counties in the province of Småland. It borders the counties of Skåne, Halland, Jönköping, Kalmar, and Blekinge. Its capital is the city of V ...

and mainly covers news in

Ljungby Ljungby () is the Urban areas in Sweden, central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015. Ljungby was instituted in 1829 as a ''köping'', or ''market town'', and did not become a municipality o ...

Markaryd Markaryd () is a locality and the seat of Markaryd Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 3,966 inhabitants in 2010. International relations Twin towns — Sister cities Markaryd is twinned with: * Bytów, Poland Poland, official ...

, and

Älmhult Älmhult () is a locality and the seat of Älmhult Municipality in Kronoberg County, Sweden with 17950 as of 2024 It was in Älmhult that the first IKEA (the Swedish furniture company) store was built. IKEA continues to have a large corporate pr ...

. The newspaper's head office is located in Ljungby, with local offices in Markaryd and Älmhult. The newspaper was founded in 1921 in Ljungby by

Elfrid Dürango ''Elfrid: or The Fair Inconstant'', generally shortened to ''Elfrid'', is a 1710 tragedy by the British writer Aaron Hill. Hill wrote the work in less than a fortnight. Set in Saxon England it featured Barton Booth as Athelwold, Charles Powell ...

. The first edition was published on December 6, 1921. Since 1969 Smålänningen is a part of Hallpress. Smålänningen have a circulation of 12 200 and 34 000 readers.

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1921 establishments in Sweden Daily newspapers published in Sweden Newspapers established in 1921 Swedish-language newspapers Ljungby Mass media in Kronoberg County 20th-century establishments in Kronoberg County {{Sweden-newspaper-stub