Lagan
Lagan is the second largest locality situated in Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 1,744 inhabitants in 2010. It is at an altitude of 139 meters. It has got its name from the river Lagan, which passes nearby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,550 residents
- Description: urban area in Ljungby Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Lagan, Sweden”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vittaryd and Dörarp.
Vittaryd
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Vittaryd is a locality situated in Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 318 inhabitants in 2010. Several of the older houses in the centre of the village predate the industrialisation of Europe. Vittaryd is situated 6 km northwest of Lagan.
Dörarp
Hamlet
Photo: Fruggo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dörarp is a small locality in Ljungby Municipality, Sweden. In 2005, Dörarp had 145 inhabitants. Dörarp is also the site of heavy metal band Metallica's tour bus accident during the Damage, Inc. Dörarp is situated 8 km north of Lagan.
Ljungby
Photo: Boberger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ljungby is a town in southern Sweden that lies by the river Lagan. It is in the historical region Finnveden, one of the "small countries" which make up today's Småland.
Lagan
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
56.91746° or 56° 55′ 3″ northLongitude
13.98947° or 13° 59′ 22″ eastPopulation
1,550Elevation
148 metres (486 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE LGNOpen location code
9F8MWX8Q+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 260278918OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Lagan” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lagan”
- Chinese: “Lagan, Sweden”
- Danish: “Lagan”
- Dutch: “Lagan”
- Finnish: “Lagan (taajama)”
- Finnish: “Lagan”
- French: “Lagan”
- German: “Lagan”
- Irish: “Lagan”
- Italian: “Lagan”
- Ladin: “Lagan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lagan”
- Northern Sami: “Lagan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lagan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lagan i Sverige”
- Norwegian: “Lagan”
- Polish: “Lagan (miejscowość w Szwecji)”
- Polish: “Lagan”
- Swedish: “Lagan”
- Ukrainian: “Лаган (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Лаган”
- Urdu: “لاگان، سویڈین”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lagan”. Photo: Rikard1435, CC BY-SA 4.0.