Hylte Municipality is the only inland municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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 of Halland County

Halland County

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 in southwest Sweden

Sweden

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. The industrial town

Urban areas in Sweden

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  Hyltebruk

Hyltebruk

Hyltebruk is a locality and the seat of Hylte Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 3,742 inhabitants in 2005.The town grew up around the paper mill owned by Hylte Bruks AB, which started its operation in 1907. A railway was built in 1909 connecting it with Torup on the Halmstad-Nässjö line...

 is the seat of the municipality.

The first Hylte Municipality was created in 1952 through the amalgamation

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 of three minor units in Jönköping County

Jönköping County

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. In 1974 further amalgamations took place and the county boundary was redrawn.

Geography

The municipality straddles the boundary of two historic provinces

Provinces of Sweden

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, Halland

Halland

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 and Småland

Småland

' is a historical province in southern Sweden.Småland borders Blekinge, Scania or Skåne, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means Small Lands. . The latinized form Smolandia has been used in other languages...

.

Localities

There are 6 urban areas

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...

 (also called a Tätort or locality) in Hylte 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	Hyltebruk Hyltebruk Hyltebruk is a locality and the seat of Hylte Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 3,742 inhabitants in 2005.The town grew up around the paper mill owned by Hylte Bruks AB, which started its operation in 1907. A railway was built in 1909 connecting it with Torup on the Halmstad-Nässjö line...	3,742
2	Torup	1,239
3	Unnaryd Unnaryd Unnaryd is a locality situated in Hylte Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 760 inhabitants in 2005....	760
4	Rydöbruk Rydöbruk Rydöbruk is a locality situated in Hylte Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 385 inhabitants in 2005....	385
5	Landeryd Landeryd Landeryd is a locality situated in Hylte Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 372 inhabitants in 2005....	372
6	Kinnared Kinnared Kinnared is a locality situated in Hylte Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 297 inhabitants in 2005....	297

External links

• Hylte Municipality - Official site