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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name          = Kumla
|image_skyline          = Kumla station 1.jpg
|image_caption          = [[Kumla Train Station]]
|pushpin_map            = Sweden Örebro#Sweden
|pushpin_label_position = 
|subdivision_type       = [[Country]]
|subdivision_name       = [[Sweden]]
|subdivision_type3      = [[Municipalities of Sweden|Municipality]]
|subdivision_name3      = [[Kumla Municipality]]
|subdivision_type2      = [[Counties of Sweden|County]]
|subdivision_name2      = [[Örebro County]]
|subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces of Sweden|Province]]
|subdivision_name1      = [[Närke]]
|area_footnotes         = <ref name=scb>{{cite web |url=https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/kommuner-i-siffror/#?region1=1881&region2= |title= Kommuner i siffror - tabeller och fördjupning |publisher=[[Statistics Sweden]]|access-date=24 January 2021|language=sv}}</ref>
|area_total_km2         = 7.79
|population_as_of       = 31 December 2018
|population_footnotes   = <ref name=scb />
|population_total       = 21,640 <!-- This is the official figure from Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån). -->
|population_density_km2 = 1806
|timezone               = [[Central European Time|CET]]
|utc_offset             = +1
|timezone_DST           = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
|utc_offset_DST         = +2
|coordinates            = {{coord|59|07|N|15|08|E|region:SE|display=inline,title}}
|website                = 
}}
'''Kumla''' is a [[Urban areas in Sweden|locality]] and the seat of [[Kumla Municipality]], [[Örebro County]], [[Sweden]] with a population of 21,640 as of 2018.<ref name=scb />

==Geography==
Kumla is situated roughly 15 [[kilometres]] south of neighbouring city [[Örebro]], and is connected to its much larger neighbour with train and bus commuting. Kumla is unusual in terms of municipality seats in Svealand in that there is no connection to any kind of waterway in the centre of the town. However, three of the four biggest lakes in the country are within an hour's drive from the town. It is also an unusually flat town, since it is situated in the middle of the so-called Närke Plain. There is also a very agrarian landscape surrounding Kumla.

==Transport==
Kumla is linked with several roads, including the highway [[European route E20|E20]] that is passing just west of the locality. The E20 is the fastest route to both [[Gothenburg]] and [[Stockholm]], which Kumla is situated relatively close to the middle between the two largest Swedish cities. E20 passes Örebro as well, but there are several routes which go to the larger neighbour city from Kumla. The roads 51 (from [[Norrköping]]) and 52 (from [[Nyköping]]) also pass through Kumla.

Kumla also has a train station on the Stockholm-Gothenburg route driven by [[Statens Järnvägar|SJ]].

==History==
Kumla was known as a shoe manufacturing town since the first half of the 19th century. This history is memorialized in Kumla's [[Skoindustrimuseet i Kumla|Shoe Industry Museum]], with a small-scale production of shoes.

Kumla got the title of a city in 1942, but is since 1971 the seat of the larger [[Kumla Municipality]].

==Today==
Today the industry is dominated by the manufacturing of [[jam]] at {{Interlanguage link multi|Bob (trademark)|sv|3=Bob (varumärke)|lt=Bob Industries}} and communication systems at an [[Ericsson]] industry.

The name Kumla is renowned for its [[Kumla Prison|prison]] ("the Kumla Institution", or ''Kumlaanstalten'', commonly known as 'The Bunker'), which is the largest prison in the country. Opened in 1965, it can currently allow 333 male inmates, with a similarly large staff, and is designated for "difficult" inmates and for those at the start of a life-term sentence. It is one of three Swedish prisons housing the most notorious and dangerous inmates.

<gallery>
File:Kumla view cirka 1920.jpg|In 1920, Kumla was still a small town
File:Kent Karlsson Absit Omen.JPG|"Absit Omen" artwork by Swedish artist Kent Karlsson placed on the permanent exhibition "Konst på hög" in Kumla
File:Richard Brixel Karyatid.JPG|"Karyatid" by Richard Brixel, at the same exhibition
</gallery>

==Notable people==

*[[Hampus Ericsson]] (2003–), racing driver
*[[Marcus Ericsson]] (1990&ndash;), racing driver, [[2022 Indy 500]] winner
*[[Pierre Bengtsson]] (1988&ndash;), association football player
*[[Fredrik Ekblom]] (1970&ndash;), racing driver
*[[Håkan Nesser]] (1950&ndash;), author
*[[Peter Stormare]] (1953&ndash;), actor, born in Kumla but grew up in [[Arbrå]]

== References ==
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{{Localities in Kumla Municipality}}
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[[Category:Populated places in Kumla Municipality]]
[[Category:Municipal seats of Örebro County]]
[[Category:Swedish municipal seats]]