Tranås Municipality

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**Tranås Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Jönköping County in Sweden; Tranås in north-east Map outlining the municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Tranås
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	County	Jönköping County
	Province	Småland
	Area Rank	403 km² 201th of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	17 751 131 of 290
	Population density	44/km²

Tranås Municipality is a municipality in Jönköping County, Småland, in southern Sweden, where the city of Tranås (pop. 14,000) is the seat.

Tranås contains three parishes, Säby, Linderås and Adelöv

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[edit] General information

[edit] Famous Citizens

Lennart Hyland, renowned sport commentator and host for several radio- and tv-shows, born in Tranås city.
Ove Fundin, worldchampion in speedway, also born in Tranås city.
Johanna Westman, host on SVT (Swedish National Television), author of cook- and children's books.
Richard Carlsohn, musical theatre performer.
Magnus Svensson, by far the best hockey player from Tranås, has played hundreds of times in Swedens national team, Tre Kronor, and was the best goal scorer in World Cup 1994. Also won Olympic Gold medal 1994. Played most of his career i Leksands IF but also made a couple of seasons in the NHL with Florida Panthers

[edit] Sports

Tranås FF is the city's football team.
Tranås Bois have played in bandy allsvenskan.
Tranås AIF is the city's pride when it comes to ice hockey. The team currently resides i Division one.
Tranås Baseboll is the city's pride when it comes to baseball.
Tranås Golfklubb is the city's Golf Club with a well known course.

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[edit] Education

Tranås Utbildningscentrum, Community Centre of Higher Education and Professional Skills.
Holavedsskolan, gymnasium. The name originates from Holaveden, the forest which acts like a border between Småland and Östergötland.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Tranås is quite well-known for its fur industry, even though there is almost no such activity today.

Mojn.net, arranges the biggest lanparties in the municipality

Recently there have been lots of problems with drug abuse and street violence, giving Tranås the nickname "Tombstone". The politicians are mainly to be blamed for this, shutting down the local police station, making this once so peaceful little town, a haven for criminals and lowlife trash.

Music plays an important part of everyday life in Tranås. Bands such as Rövsvett, El Scorschos, The Trick and Feel Flows all try their best to give the citizens of Tranås a reason to live despite all doom and gloom. Tranås as a town still holds itself in high esteem since winning the annual national award as "music municipal of the year", despite the politicians trying their best to shut down important meeting places like Sobelhuset and be very anti-rock band in their stance.

Nowadays the best known band from Tranås is The Bombdolls, a punk rock band that regularly tours in Sweden and Germany.