Bäckebo

{{Short description|Swedish locality}}

{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Bäckebo

|image_skyline = Bäckebo kyrka.jpg

|image_caption = Bäckebo church

|pushpin_map = Sweden Kalmar#Sweden

|pushpin_label_position =

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Sweden

|subdivision_type3 = Municipality

|subdivision_name3 = Nybro Municipality

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Kalmar County

|subdivision_type1 = Province

|subdivision_name1 = Småland

|area_footnotes = {{cite web|url=http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |title=Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010 |date=14 December 2011 |publisher=Statistics Sweden |language=Swedish |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127055525/http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |archivedate=27 January 2012 |url-status=live |accessdate=10 January 2012 }}

|area_total_km2 = 0.84

|population_as_of = 31 December 2010

|population_footnotes =

|population_total = 219

|population_density_km2 = 260

|timezone = CET

|utc_offset = +1

|timezone_DST = CEST

|utc_offset_DST = +2

|coordinates = {{coord|56|53|N|16|04|E|region:SE|display=inline,title}}

|website =

}}

Bäckebo is a locality situated in Nybro Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden, with 219 inhabitants in 2010. It is known for the World War II Bäckebo rocket incident, in which the test flight of a German V-2 rocket, bound for Denmark, went astray and exploded above a cornfield near the hamlet of Gräsdals.