Osby Municipality
Osby Municipality is a municipality in Scania County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Osby. The amalgamation during the 1970s' local government reform took place in the area on 1 January 1974, when the former market town Osby was merged with three adjacent rural municipalities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Municipality with 12,900 residents
- Description: municipality in Skåne County, Sweden
- Also known as: “1273”, “Osby”, and “Osby kommun”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Osby.
Osby
Town
Photo: Ola Andreasson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Osby is a locality and the seat of Osby Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 7,157 inhabitants in 2010 and 13,238 inhabitants in 2022. It is the birthplace of the toy manufacturer BRIO, whose museum, the BRIO Lekoseum, remains in the town.
Osby Municipality
- Categories: municipality of Sweden and locality
- Location: Scania, Götaland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
56.4167° or 56° 25′ northLongitude
14.0833° or 14° 5′ eastPopulation
12,900Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)Open location code
9F8PC38M+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 302270336OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
2686197Wikidata ID
Q504594
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Osby Municipality” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “conceyu d’Osby (Suecia)”
- Asturian: “Osby kommun”
- Asturian: “Osby”
- Basque: “Osby udalerria”
- Belarusian: “Усбю”
- Bulgarian: “Осбю”
- Cebuano: “Osby kommun”
- Chinese: “Osby Chū-tī-chhī”
- Chinese: “乌斯比市镇”
- Chinese: “烏斯比市鎮”
- Czech: “Osby”
- Danish: “Osby kommun”
- Danish: “Osby Kommune”
- Dutch: “Osby”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوسبى (بلديه)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوسبى”
- Esperanto: “komunumo Osby”
- Esperanto: “Osby kommun”
- Esperanto: “Osby”
- Faroese: “Osby kommuna”
- Finnish: “Osbyn kunta”
- French: “Commune d’Osby”
- French: “Osby”
- Galician: “Concello de Osby”
- German: “Osby”
- Italian: “Municipalità di Osby”
- Italian: “Osby”
- Korean: “오스뷔시”
- Ladin: “Osby”
- Limburgan: “Osby”
- Lombard: “Osby”
- Low German: “Kommun Osby”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Osby Chū-tī-chhī”
- Northern Frisian: “Osby (Komuun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Osby”
- Northern Sami: “Osby gielda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Osby kommun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Osby kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Osby kommun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Osby kommune”
- Norwegian: “Osby kommune”
- Persian: “بخش اوسبی”
- Polish: “Gmina Osby”
- Portuguese: “Osby”
- Romanian: “Comuna Osby”
- Russian: “Осби”
- Slovenian: “Občina Osby”
- Slovenian: “Osby kommun”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Osby”
- Swedish: “Osby kommun”
- Swedish: “Osby”
- Swedish: “Osbys kommun”
- Ukrainian: “Усбю”
- Vietnamese: “Osby”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Osby”
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