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__NOTOC__ The Ångerman or Angerman () is one of Sweden's longest rivers with a total length of . It also has the third largest flow rate, after the Göta and Lule.

Key facts

River.name
Ångerman
River.image
Ångermanälven.jpg
River.subdivision_type1
Country
River.subdivision_name1
Sweden
River.subdivision_type3
County
River.length_km
460
River.mouth
Gulf of Bothnia
River.basin_size_km2
31864.0

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
river
Country
Sweden
Continent
Europe
Image
Hoga kustenbron Sweden.jpg
Length
460
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origin of the watercourse
Scandinavian Mountains
Commons category
Ångermanälven
category for the water basin
Category:Ångermanälven basin
watershed area
32000
mouth of the watercourse
Baltic Sea
discharge
344
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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Name
  • Elk Migration
  • Course
  • Tributaries
  • References
  • Citations
  • Bibliography

__NOTOC__ The Ångerman or Angerman () is one of Sweden's longest rivers with a total length of . It also has the third largest flow rate, after the Göta and Lule.

==Name== The name was formerly written Ångermann or Angermann. The name is derived from the Old Norse anger, which means "deep fjord" and appears in placenames in Norway, and as "ånger" in placenames along the coast of Norrland.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ångermanälven” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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