Those interested in nature activities will find many opportunities of fishing in the many lakes and streams stretching through the municipality.

Moberg himself was born on a farm just north-west of the town Emmaboda in 1898, where a monument stone now stands since 1970.

Duvemåla, the village where Karl Oskar and Kristina, the fictional main characters of the novels live, is also located in the municipality.

Historically, the dense forests in this area were a centre for Nils Dacke's rebellion fights against King Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, causing the king great troubles for a while, until he sent down troops gathered from the other provinces of Sweden.

The largest employer is ITT Water & Wastewater, with a world-wide reputation for their submersible pumps and mixers for waste water treatment and pumping (mining, construction, municipal and industrial markets), with some 1,400 employees in the municipality.

Emmaboda has seven sister cities; of these the municipality only has regular contact with the two listed at the bottom: