Staffanstorp Municipality (Staffanstorps kommun) is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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 in Skåne County

Skåne County

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, southern Sweden

Sweden

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. Its seat is located in the town Staffanstorp

Staffanstorp

Staffanstorp is a locality and the seat of Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 13,783 inhabitants in 2005. Of the Scanian towns that never acquired town privileges before abolished in Sweden in 1971, Staffanstorp is the largest.-History:...

. Uppåkra

Uppåkra

Uppåkra is a village located five kilometres south of Lund in Scania in southernmost Sweden.-History:Uppåkra was situated on the ancient main road between Trelleborg and Helsingborg in what was to become the Danish kingdom. The original foundation of Uppåkra is dated to the first century AD,...

, the former location for the city of Lund

Lund

-Main sights:During the 12th and 13th centuries, when the town was the seat of the archbishop, many churches and monasteries were built. At its peak, Lund had 27 churches, but most of them were demolished as result of the Reformation in 1536. Several medieval buildings remain, including Lund...

, is located in the municipality.

The municipality was formed by the local government reform of 1952, when 12 original units, created out of parish

Parish

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es in 1863, were amalgamated

Amalgamation (politics)

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. The next reform in 1971 did not affect the size of this municipality.

In the municipality there are two localities which have grown into suburb

Suburb

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s of Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

, Staffanstorp

Staffanstorp

Staffanstorp is a locality and the seat of Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 13,783 inhabitants in 2005. Of the Scanian towns that never acquired town privileges before abolished in Sweden in 1971, Staffanstorp is the largest.-History:...

 with 13,800 inhabitants and Hjärup

Hjärup

Hjärup is a locality, situated in Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 4,885 inhabitants in 2005.Hjärup has a station on the Skåne commuter rail system. The locality has a suburban character with semi-detached houses initially built in the 1960s–1970s on Lundaslätten, the...

 with 3,900 inhabitants, which both are typical residential districts dominated by detached houses built in the second half of the 20th century, wherefrom most people commute for work in the nearby cities of Lund

Lund

-Main sights:During the 12th and 13th centuries, when the town was the seat of the archbishop, many churches and monasteries were built. At its peak, Lund had 27 churches, but most of them were demolished as result of the Reformation in 1536. Several medieval buildings remain, including Lund...

 and Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

.

Localities

There are 3 urban area

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...

s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Staffanstorp Municipality.

In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Staffanstorp Staffanstorp Staffanstorp is a locality and the seat of Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 13,783 inhabitants in 2005. Of the Scanian towns that never acquired town privileges before abolished in Sweden in 1971, Staffanstorp is the largest.-History:...	13,783
2	Hjärup Hjärup Hjärup is a locality, situated in Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 4,885 inhabitants in 2005.Hjärup has a station on the Skåne commuter rail system. The locality has a suburban character with semi-detached houses initially built in the 1960s–1970s on Lundaslätten, the...	3,885
3	Kyrkheddinge Kyrkheddinge Kyrkheddinge is a locality situated in Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 251 inhabitants in 2005. It is situated about southeast of Lund and west-southwest of Dalby....	251

External links

• Staffanstorp - Official site
• Coat of arms