Ljungby | |
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 Storgatan with Ljungby Church in the background. | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Ljungby  Ljungby | |
| Coordinates: 56°50′N 13°56′E / 56.833°N 13.933°E | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Province | Småland |
| County | Kronoberg County |
| Municipality | Ljungby Municipality |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11.93 km2 (4.61 sq mi) |
| Population (31 December 2010)[1] | |
| • Total | 15,205 |
| • Density | 1,274/km2 (3,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Ljungby (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjɵ̂ŋːbʏ] )[2] is the central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015.[1]
Ljungby was instituted in 1829 as a köping, or market town, and did not become a municipality of its own when the first local government acts took effect in 1863, but retained part of the surrounding rural municipality of the same name. In 1936 Ljungby got the title stad, Swedish for Town or City. Since 1971 Ljungby is the seat of Ljungby Municipality.
Much of the town center was destroyed in the city fire of 1953. At the time of the rebuilding, the modern style used, characterized by among other Hotel Terazza, still remains controversial locally.
- ^ a b c "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ Jöran Sahlgren; Gösta Bergman (1979). Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter (in Swedish). p. 16.