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Sjöbo is a municipality and town in Scania in southernmost Sweden.
The municipality covers an area of 495.5 km². Of the total population of 16,648, 8,333 are male, and 8,315 are female. The population density of the community is 34 inhabitants per km².
The municipality reached into the publics eye in 1988 by declaring reluctant to accept refugees. Most other municipalities in Sweden accepted refugees, which at that time came to Sweden from, for example, former Yugoslavia and Iraq.