Tranås 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 the seat of Tranås Municipality

Tranås Municipality

Tranås Municipality is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden, where the town Tranås is seat.The original entity Tranås was detached from the rural municipality Säby as a market town in 1882 and made a city in 1919. The reunification took place in 1951 when Säby was made a part of...

, Jönköping County

Jönköping County

Jönköping County is a county or län in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötland, Kalmar and Kronoberg. The capital is Jönköping.- Provinces :...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 with 14,017 inhabitants in 2005.

Overview

It is close to the lake Sommen

Sommen

Sommen is a Swedish lake. Its area is 132 km² and its greatest depth is 60 m. The lake is located in southern Sweden, and is bounded by the provinces of Östergötland and Småland....

 in the north of 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...

. Its main commercial center is located along the main street, Storgatan. The symbol of the town is the crane

Crane (bird)

Cranes are a family, Gruidae, of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in the order Gruiformes. There are fifteen species of crane in four genera. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back...

as featured on the town's coat of arms. Some of the bigger employers in the town are Strömsholmen, Stiga, Pastejköket and EFG (European Furniture Group).

Since 2005 there is free bus service in the central part of town.