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Ängelholm Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Ängelholm.In 1971 the City of Ängelholm was amalgamated with the rural municipalities Ausås, Barkåkra, Hjärnarp and Munka-Ljungby, thus creating a municipality of unitary type. In 1974 a parish from the dissolved municipality Östra Ljungby was added.Ängelholm was until recently the home of a major airforce base. The base is now closed down and the premises taken over by the supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg.A notable landmark is the UFO memorial at Ängelholm. It is a model of a flying saucer on a site, situated on a site, where on 18 May 1946 a UFO allegedly landed.LocalitiesThere are 9 urban areas (also called a tätort, or locality) in Ängelholm Municipality.In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.1)(North Rhine-Westphalia)(Swedish) - Official site (English)Coat of armsÄngelholm Tourist Office (English