Kallinge is a locality situated in Ronneby Municipality

Ronneby Municipality

Ronneby Municipality is a municipality in Blekinge County in southern Sweden. It borders to Tingsryd Municipality, Emmaboda Municipality, Karlskrona Municipality and Karlshamn Municipality...

, Blekinge County

Blekinge County

Blekinge County is a county or län in the south of Sweden. It borders the Counties of Skåne, Kronoberg, Kalmar and the Baltic Sea. The capital is Karlskrona...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 with 4,767 inhabitants in 2005. It is an industrial and garrison town and is situated about 5 km north of Ronneby

Ronneby

Ronneby is a locality and the seat of Ronneby Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden with 11,767 inhabitants in 2005.Ronneby is regarded as the heart of "the Garden of Sweden", and in 2005 the park "Brunnsparken" in Ronneby was voted Sweden's most beautiful park. 2006 the park was voted Europe's...

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The settlement grew up around an ironworks in the latter half of the 19th century.

Since 1944 Kallinge has had an air force base (F 17 Kallinge

F 17 Kallinge

F 17 Kallinge, Blekinge Flygflottilj, Blekinge Air Force Wing, or simply "F 17", is a Swedish Air Force wing with the main base located near Ronneby in southern Sweden. It is one of the three remaining wings in Sweden and currently has two squadrons of multirole aircraft. F17 in the south and F21...

). It is also an airport for civil aircraft called Ronneby Airport

Ronneby Airport

Ronneby Airport is located about 4 km from Ronneby, Sweden and 30 km from Karlshamn and 30 km from Karlskrona....

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