Mönsterås

Mönsterås (Swedish pronunciation: [mœnstɛrˈoːs])^[2] is a locality and the seat of Mönsterås Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden, with 6,352 inhabitants in 2012.^[1]

Mönsterås
Mönsterås
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Coordinates: 57°02′N 16°27′E / 57.033°N 16.450°E / 57.033; 16.450
Country	Sweden
Province	Småland
County	Kalmar County
Municipality	Mönsterås Municipality
Area ^[1]
• Total	4.10 km^2 (1.58 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2010)^[1]
• Total	4,731
• Density	1,154/km^2 (2,990/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Mönsterås is associated with the Swedish poet Carl Boberg, particularly his 1885 writing of the lyrics for the eminent hymn "O Store Gud" (or "How Great Thou Art" by its common English title).

Postcard from around 1905 depicting the centre of Mönsterås

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1. . www.scb.se (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
2. Jöran Sahlgren; Gösta Bergman (1979). Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter (in Swedish). p. 18.