Lönsboda
Place in Scania, Sweden
56°24′N 14°19′E / 56.400°N 14.317°E / 56.400; 14.317[1]
(31 December 2010)[1]
280 70; 283 93
Lönsboda is the second largest locality in Osby Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 1,903 inhabitants in 2010.[1]
Lönsboda is situated in north-eastern Scania, about 20 km east of the municipal seat Osby and near the region border to Blekinge and Kronoberg.
The community grew up around a railway station which was opened in 1901.
United States Marine Corps War Memorial
Lönsboda has a connection to the United States and its military history. Sculptors obtained a block of black diabase for the pedestal of the Marine Corps War Memorial from quarries in Lönsboda.
References
- ^ a b c "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
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