Mörlunda
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Mörlunda is a locality situated in Hultsfred Municipality
Hultsfred Municipality
Hultsfred Municipality is a municipality in Kalmar County, in south-eastern Sweden. The seat is in the town of Hultsfred....

, Kalmar County
Kalmar County
Kalmar County is a county or län in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg, Jönköping, Blekinge and Östergötland. To the east in the Baltic Sea is the island Gotland....

, 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 956 inhabitants in 2005.

It gave its name
Morlunda, West Virginia
Morlunda is an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. Morlunda is northwest of Lewisburg.Its name was taken from the small town of Mörlunda in the southern Swedish province of Småland. It means "wooded marsh"...

 to a community in Greenbrier County
Greenbrier County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 34,453 people, 14,571 households, and 9,922 families residing in the county. The population density was 34 people per square mile . There were 17,644 housing units at an average density of 17 per square mile...

, West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

. The name means "wooded marsh", a fitting description for its surroundings.
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