Mantorp 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...

 situated in Mjölby Municipality

Mjölby Municipality

Mjölby Municipality is a municipality in Östergötland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Mjölby, with some 12,000 inhabitants....

, Östergötland County

Östergötland County

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, Sweden

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 with 3,326 inhabitants in 2005. In the middle of Mantorp there is a small centre where a Christmas market is held annually. The locality is surrounded by farmland. The closest bigger towns are Mjölby

Mjölby

Mjölby is a city and the seat of Mjölby Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 11,927 inhabitants in 2005.Mjölby is located by the rivulet Svartån. The name "Mjölby" is derived from "Mölloby", which comes from mylna or mölna -- meaning "mill"...

 about 10 km away and Linköping

Linköping

Linköping is a city in southern middle Sweden, with 104 232 inhabitants in 2010. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality with 146 736 inhabitants and the capital of Östergötland County...

 about 20-30 km away.

Mantorp is the location of the race track Mantorp Park

Mantorp Park

Mantorp Park is a motor racing circuit near the town of Mantorp in Mjölby Municipality, Sweden. The circuit was built in 1969 with finance from BP Sweden as a permanent road course and a drag strip...

 and Mantorp-horse trotting track.