Lessebo Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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 in eastern Kronoberg County

Kronoberg County

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 in southern Sweden

Sweden

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, where the town Lessebo

Lessebo

Lessebo is a locality and the seat of Lessebo Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 2,623 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...

 is seat.

The nation-wide local government reform of 1971 saw the creation of the present municipality, when three surrounding municipalities were amalgamated with the market town (köping

Köping

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) of Lessebo (itself instituted in 1939)

Lessebo Municipality is best known for the manufacture of glassware

Glassware

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. It is located in Sweden's so-called Glasriket (Realm of Glass), which also includes the municipalities of Uppvidinge

Uppvidinge Municipality

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, Emmaboda

Emmaboda Municipality

Emmaboda Municipality is a municipality in Kalmar County, in south-eastern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Emmaboda....

 and Nybro

Nybro Municipality

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.

The main glassblower company in Lessebo Municipality is Kosta Boda, established in 1742 as "Kosta". They offer instruction for students wanting to learn the field.

Besides the glass industry, Lessebo Municipality also has a manufacturer of handmade

Handmade

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 paper which was established in 1693, today an exclusive product mainly used for finer documents.

In its history, Lessebo Municipality still honours the Swedish emigration in the late 19th century, whereby many poor farmers from Sweden – many of them from Småland

Småland

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 – emigrated to the U.S.. When Vilhelm Moberg

Vilhelm Moberg

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 wrote his acclaimed novels about this time, he located his main characters' home to the parish of Ljuder in eastern Lessebo Municipality. An honorary Walk of the Emigrants also stretches through the municipality and continues to Karlshamn

Karlshamn

Karlshamn is a locality and the seat of Karlshamn Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden with 12,957 inhabitants of the city core and 30 918 in the municipality ....

 in the south.

Localities

There are 4 urban area

Urban areas in Sweden

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s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Lessebo 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	Hovmantorp Hovmantorp Hovmantorp is the largest locality in Lessebo Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 3,001 inhabitants in 2005.-References:...	3,001
2	Lessebo Lessebo Lessebo is a locality and the seat of Lessebo Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 2,623 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...	2,623
3	Kosta Kosta, Sweden Kosta is a locality situated in Lessebo Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 941 inhabitants in 2005.It is located between the cities of Kalmar and Växjö, in the forested Småland province....	941
4	Skruv Skruv Skruv is a locality situated in Lessebo Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 516 inhabitants in 2005....	516

External links

• Lessebo Municipality - Official site
• Glasriket - Official site, in Swedish, English and German
• Walk of the Emigrants
• Coat of arms