Hishult 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...

 and a parish

Parish

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 situated in Laholm Municipality

Laholm Municipality

Laholm Municipality is a municipality in Halland County in southwest Sweden. The seat is located in Laholm.The amalgamation process during the local government reform in the 1970s took place in two steps...

, Halland County

Halland County

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, Sweden

Sweden

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 with 356 inhabitants in 2005.

The area has been a centre of iron extraction and formed a county

County

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, including parts of northern Skåne while it was Danish

Denmark

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. The name might be related to the iron extraction as it used to be spelt Isenhult which might mean iron forest.

Today it has a gallery of some reputation.