Tingsryd Municipality
# Locality Population
1 Tingsryd 3,023
2 Ryd 1,446
3 Väckelsång 979
4 Urshult 813
5 Linneryd 541
6 Konga 508
7 Rävemåla 323
8 Fridafors 296
Localities
There are 8 urban areas ( also called a Tätort or locality ) in Tingsryd Municipality . In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31 , 2005 . The municipal seat is in bold characters .
Tingsryd Municipality (Tingsryds kommun) is a municipality in Småland, southern Sweden, in southeastern Kronoberg County, where the town Tingsryd is seat. The present municipality was formed by the local government reform of 1971 when the market town (köping) Tingsryd (instituted in 1921) was amalgamated with its surrounding entities. Tingsryd Municipality refers to itself as the Horse Capital because of a close connection to horses; they are housing nearly 2,000 horses. The new Tingsryd horse racing track (opened 27 July 2003) is the only one in Northern Europe being a mile (1,609 m) long and gathers all kinds of horse sports.