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Vetlanda Municipality

Vetlanda Municipality (Vetlanda kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, in southern Sweden where the town Vetlanda is seat.

The municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Vetlanda (instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form a unitary municipality. In 1863, when the first local government acts in Sweden came into force, there were more than 20 enities within the area of the present municipality.

Geography

Vetlanda Municipality is the largest municipality in Jönköping County. The municipality is situated on the South Swedish highlands, an area situated some 250 meters above sea level and also includes Eksjö Municipality and Nässjö Municipality. It is a sight worthy nature that is visited by tourists for the scenery alone.

The distance to any of the three largest Swedish cities Malmö (south-west), Gothenburg (west) and Stockholm (north-east) is rather similar; about 300 km.

History

The history of Vetlanda goes back to at least the medieval age when it was the seat for the regional assembly called þing (thing). According to the imaginations of Petter Rudebeck (1660–1710), Vetlanda was before that known as Vitala, and the centre of a mythological kingdom. However, all later archeological research have failed in finding any evidence of it. But the myth was popular during the 18th and 19th century, which displays in the naming of several companies and locations around the municipality.

Localities

There are 12 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Vetlanda 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.

#	Locality	Population
1	Vetlanda	12,691
2	Ekenässjön	1,551
3	Landsbro	1,454
4	Holsbybrunn	780
5	Korsberga	731
6	Myresjö	644
7	Kvillsfors	560
8	Sjunnen	417
9	Skede	345
10	Björköby	312
11	Pauliström	257
12	Nye	203