VAXJ45, VEXIO or WEXIO, a town and bishop's see of Sweden, capital of the district (lan) of Kronoberg, 124 m. north east of Malmo by rail. Pop. (1928), 9,626. It is pleasantly sit uated among low wooded hills at the north end of Lake Vaxjo, and near the south end of Lake Helga. Its appearance is modern, for it was burnt in 1843. The cathedral of St. Siegfrid dates from
about 130o, but has been restored, the last time in 1898. The Smaland Museum has antiquarian and numismatic collections. At Ostrabo, the episcopal residence without the town, the poet Esaias Tegner died in 1846, and he is buried in the town cemetery.