Fur, Sweden

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Fur
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Fur
Location in Blekinge County
Coordinates: 56°20′N15°44′E / 56.333°N 15.733°E / 56.333; 15.733
CountryFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
County Blekinge County
Municipality Karlskrona Municipality
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Fur is a hamlet in Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, southeastern Sweden.

Hamlet (place) small settlement in a rural area

A hamlet is a small human settlement. In different jurisdictions and geographies, hamlets may be the size of a town, village or parish, be considered a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet have roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French hamlet came to apply to small human settlements. In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church.

Karlskrona Municipality Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden

Karlskrona Municipality is a municipality in Blekinge County in South Sweden in southern Sweden. It borders to Emmaboda Municipality, Torsås Municipality and Ronneby Municipality. The city of Karlskrona is the seat of the municipality.

Blekinge County County (län) of Sweden

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. It is the smallest of the present administrative counties of Sweden, covering only 0,7% of the total area of the country.