Tranås Municipality

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**Tranås Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Image:Svcmap jonkoping.png Jönköping County in Sweden; Tranås in north-east Image:Jönköping County.png Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms Image:Tranås City Arms.png
	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
	Density	44/km²

This page deals with both Tranås Municipality and the urban area (tätort) Tranås

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

General Information

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.

Tranås Bois have played in bandy allsvenskan.
Tranås AIF is the cities pride when it comes to icehockey, the team has a cooperations agreement with the eliteserie club HV71 from Jönköping.
Tranås Baseboll is the cities pride when it comes to baseball.

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

Tranås is quite well-known for it's fur industry, even though there is almost no activity on that "scene" thesedays.

Jönköping County

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