Norra Kvill National Park

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Norra Kvill National Park
Norra Kvills nationalpark
IUCN category II (national park)
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Location Kalmar County, Sweden
Coordinates 57°46′N15°35′E / 57.767°N 15.583°E / 57.767; 15.583 Coordinates: 57°46′N15°35′E / 57.767°N 15.583°E / 57.767; 15.583
Area 1.14 km2 (0.44 sq mi) [1]
Established 1927, extended 1989 [1]
Governing body Naturvårdsverket

Norra Kvill is a small national park (established in 1927) near Vimmerby in Kalmar county, Småland, southeastern Sweden. A few kilometers from the park is the Rumskulla oak, Europe's largest English oak with a circumference of about 14 m (46 ft). The oak is thought to be about 1 000 years old.

National park park used for conservation purposes of animal life and plants

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), has defined "National Park" as its Category II type of protected areas.

Vimmerby Place in Småland, Sweden

Vimmerby is a city and the seat of Vimmerby Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 10,934 inhabitants in 2010.

Kalmar Place in Småland, Sweden

Kalmar is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of 236,399 inhabitants (2015).

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