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Kronoberg County

Alvesta Municipality

Alvesta Municipality is a municipality in , southern . Its seat is in . The present municipality was created in 1971, when the market town Alvesta was amalgamated with four surrounding rural municipalities.
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  • Type: Municipality with 19,800 residents
  • Description: municipality in Kronoberg County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “0764” and “Alvesta kommun”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hjortsberga Church and Alvesta railway station.

Church
Photo: Bernt Fransson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Railway station
Photo: Nastoshka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station in , Kronoberg County. The station was inaugurated in 1909 and is one of the main railway transit stations in Sweden, binding together the Southern Main Line between and with the Coast-to-Coast Line between and /.

Railway station
Photo: Mirej, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alvesta and Hjortsberga.

Town
Photo: Sendelbach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a locality and the seat of Municipality in , , with 8,017 inhabitants in the urban area in 2010. is an important railway junction, joining the –– railway with the –/ railway.

Village
is a locality situated in Alvesta Municipality, , with 245 inhabitants in 2010.

Hamlet
Photo: Pieter Kuiper, CC0.
is a hamlet.

Alvesta Municipality

Latitude
56.9167° or 56° 55′ north
Longitude
14.4999° or 14° 29′ 60″ east
Population
19,800
Elevation
161 metres (528 feet)
Open location code
9F8PWF8X+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302269575
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
2726306
Wiki­data ID
Q182007
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Alvesta Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدية ألفيستا”
  • Asturian: “Alvesta kommun”
  • Asturian: “Alvesta”
  • Asturian: “conceyu d’Alvesta (Suecia)”
  • Basque: “Alvesta udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Альвеста”
  • Belarusian: “камуна Альвеста”
  • Bulgarian: “Алвеста”
  • Bulgarian: “община Алвеста”
  • Catalan: “municipi de Alvesta”
  • Cebuano: “Alvesta Kommun”
  • Cebuano: “Alvesta komyun”
  • Chinese: “Alvesta Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “阿尔沃斯塔市镇”
  • Danish: “Alvesta kommun”
  • Danish: “Alvesta Kommune”
  • Dutch: “Alvesta”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Alvesta”
  • Esperanto: “Alvesta kommun”
  • Esperanto: “Alvesta”
  • Esperanto: “komunumo Alvesta”
  • Estonian: “Alvesta vald”
  • Faroese: “Alvesta kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Alvestan kunta”
  • French: “Alvesta”
  • French: “commune de Alvesta”
  • Galician: “concello de Alvesta”
  • Galician: “Concello de Alvesta”
  • German: “Alvesta”
  • German: “Gemeinde Alvesta”
  • Greek: “δήμος της Αλβεστας”
  • Hungarian: “Alvesta község”
  • Icelandic: “Alvesta sveitarfélag”
  • Italian: “Alvesta”
  • Italian: “comune di Alvesta”
  • Japanese: “アルヴェスタ自治体”
  • Korean: “알베스타시”
  • Ladin: “Alvesta”
  • Latvian: “Alvesta pašvaldība”
  • Limburgan: “Alvesta”
  • Lithuanian: “Alvestos savivaldybė”
  • Lombard: “Alvesta”
  • Low German: “Kommun Alvesta”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alvesta Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alvesta (Komuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alvesta”
  • Northern Sami: “Alvesta gielda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alvesta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alvesta kommun”
  • Norwegian: “Alvesta kommune”
  • Persian: “شهر الوستا”
  • Polish: “gmina Alvesta”
  • Polish: “Gmina Alvesta”
  • Portuguese: “Alvesta”
  • Portuguese: “comuna da Alvesta”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Alvesta”
  • Russian: “Альвеста”
  • Russian: “коммуна Альвеста”
  • Spanish: “municipio de Alvesta”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Alvesta”
  • Swedish: “Alvesta kommun”
  • Swedish: “Alvesta”
  • Swedish: “Alvestas kommun”
  • Turkish: “Alvesta belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Alvesta”
  • Ukrainian: “Альвеста”
  • Ukrainian: “комуна Альвеста”
  • Vietnamese: “Alvesta”
  • Vietnamese: “đô thị Alvesta”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Alvesta”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Alvesta Airfield and Björnholmarnas natur reserve.

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