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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name          = Hultsfred
|image_skyline          = Kommunhuset i Hultsfred, invid Stora torget.JPG
|image_caption          = Hultsfred in July 2009
|pushpin_map            = Sweden Kalmar#Sweden
|pushpin_label_position = 
|subdivision_type       = [[Country]]
|subdivision_name       = [[Sweden]]
|subdivision_type3      = [[Municipalities of Sweden|Municipality]]
|subdivision_name3      = [[Hultsfred Municipality]]
|subdivision_type2      = [[Counties of Sweden|County]]
|subdivision_name2      = [[Kalmar County]]
|subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces of Sweden|Province]]
|subdivision_name1      = [[Småland]]
|area_footnotes         = <ref name=scb>{{cite web |url=http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |title=Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km<sup>2</sup> 2005 och 2010 |date=14 December 2011 |publisher=[[Statistics Sweden]] |language=sv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127055525/http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |archive-date=27 January 2012 |url-status=live |access-date=10 January 2012 }}</ref>
|area_total_km2         = 6.09
|population_as_of       = 31 December 2021
|population_footnotes   = <ref name=scb />
|population_total       = 5,672 <!-- This is the official figure from Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån). -->
|population_density_km2 = 844
|timezone               = [[Central European Time|CET]]
|utc_offset             = +1
|timezone_DST           = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
|utc_offset_DST         = +2
|coordinates            = {{coord|57|29|N|15|50|E|region:SE|display=inline,title}}
|website                = http://www.hultsfred.se/
}}
'''Hultsfred''' ({{IPA|sv|ˈhɵ̌ltsfrɛd|-|sv-Hultsfred.ogg}})<ref>{{cite book|url=https://runeberg.org/ortnamn/0015.html|author1=Jöran Sahlgren|author2=Gösta Bergman|title=Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter|language=sv|year=1979|page=11}}</ref> is a [[Urban areas in Sweden|locality]] and the seat of [[Hultsfred Municipality]], [[Kalmar County]], [[Sweden]] with 5,143 inhabitants in 2010.<ref name=scb /> It is best known for the [[Hultsfred Festival]] and the infamous Sharp and Shallow Lake - once described by Ward Hayden (of [[Ward Hayden and The Outliers|Ward Hayden & the Outliers]]) as «stabbing cold, painfully shallow and muddy AF».

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928150916/http://www.hultsfred.se/ Hultsfred Municipality Official Website]

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[[Category:Populated places in Hultsfred Municipality]]
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