Trelleborg (Swedish pronunciation: [trɛlɛˈbɔrj]) is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of 31 December 2015.

Three years later Trelleborg was presented as a wedding gift from the Danish royal family to the Swedish Prince Valdemar.

At that time, this was conducted along the entire coastline of what is now Sweden, as the herring shoals were of such great numbers that fishermen were said to have been able to stand on the shore and land fish with nets.

In 1962, in Trelleborg, a group of Macedonian political emigrants founded the Movement for the Liberation and Unification of Macedonia.

Trelleborg municipality built a joint ferry terminal for all services, known as "Kontinentbron", or "the Continental Bridge".

[13] Although Trelleborg does not have an official month to month weather station featured in SMHI's reports, its nearest weather stations in Falsterbo and Malmö both indicate an oceanic climate (Cfb) with warm and sometimes hot summers averaging in the low twenties Celsius most of the time and cool but generally not very cold winters with means at or just above freezing.

Trelleborg continues to be a working-class-oriented city and is politically a traditional stronghold for the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

The ferries carry both passengers on one-day journeys, cars with vacationing families, and heavy trucks on their way through Europe.

In April 1917, Lenin arrived with the ferry from Sassnitz to Trelleborg on his way from exile back to Russia to lead the Revolution.

Actress Uma Thurman's grandmother, Birgit Holmquist, the mother of Nena von Schlebrügge, was the model for this statue.

[17] Other places of interest include the bathhouse, local golf club, sporthalls, beaches and several parks.