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Lönsboda

Lönsboda is the second largest locality in Osby Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 1,903 inhabitants in 2010.

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

  1. ^ "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.