Torsås Municipality () is the southernmost

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Kalmar County Kalmar County () is a Counties of Sweden, county or ''län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg County, Kronoberg, Jönköping County, Jönköping, Blekinge County, Blekinge and Östergötland County, Östergötland. To the ...

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. Its seat is located in the town Torsås. The present municipality was created in 1971, when "old" Torsås was merged with Söderåkra.

Geography

The geography consists mainly of forest, not uncommon in

Småland Småland () is a historical Provinces of Sweden, province () in southern Sweden. Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name ''Småland'' literally means "small la ...

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 ...

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-eastern part of country Sweden with 213 inhabitants in 2005. Two Dano-Swedish treaties were signed in Brö ...

is also in the municipality.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Torsås Municipality's electoral districts in the

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sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 7,107 residents, including 5,526 Swedish citizens of voting age. 40.1 % voted for the left coalition and 58.6 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

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