Ånge Municipality
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municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Västernorrland County
- Seat
- Ånge
- Total
- 3,295.56 km (1,272.42 sq mi)
- Land
- 3,051.36 km (1,178.14 sq mi)
- Water
- 244.2 km (94.3 sq mi)
- Density
- 2.971/km (7.695/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Medelpad
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Västernorrland County
- Capital
- Ånge
- Population
- 9000
- Area
- 245.45
- Shares border with
- Bräcke Municipality
- Employees
- 1275
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.ange.se
- Image
- SverigesGeografiskaMittpunkt.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ånge
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- twinned administrative body
- Ogre
- short name
- Ånge
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/ange_municipality
- catchphrase
- Sveriges geografiska centrum
- phone number
- +46-690-25-01-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ånge Municipality (Swedish: Ånge kommun) is a municipality in Västernorrland County, northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Ånge.
The railway junction Ånge was in 1947 made a market town (köping) and detached from Borgsjö. In 1971 they were reunited and together with Haverö and Torp the present municipality was formed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ånge Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.