Hillerstorp
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Hillerstorp is a locality
Urban areas in Sweden
Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 (tätort) situated in Gnosjö Municipality
Gnosjö Municipality
Gnosjö Municipality is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden where the town Gnosjö is seat.The Swedish local government reform of 1952 formed this municipality out if five former entities, and it has not been amalgamated with others since then.About half of the municipal population...

, Jönköping County
Jönköping County
Jönköping County is a county or län in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötland, Kalmar and Kronoberg. The capital is Jönköping.- Provinces :...

, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 with 1,806 inhabitants in 2005. About 40% of the companies in Gnosjö municipality are located in Hillerstorp.

Various small industries dominate the landscape. There is a small but nationally renowned amusement park called High Chaparral (named after a Western-themed TV series
The High Chaparral
The High Chaparral is a Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The show was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network...

 aired on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

) offering, among others, the American Old West
American Old West
The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...

experiences.
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