Bjursås
Sign in to saveBjursås () is a locality situated in Falun Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 1,839 inhabitants in 2010.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in SE, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Populated places in Falun Municipality and Ski areas and resorts in Sweden.
Vinony links it to 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Bjursås
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tjôrtja.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Bjursås Church as from Dössberget in Bjursås
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Sweden Dalarna#Sweden
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Sweden
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Falun Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Dalarna County
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Dalarna
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 3.25
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 31 December 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 1,839
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 566
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- urban area in Sweden
- Official name
- Bjursås
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Falun Municipality
- Population
- 2141
- Area
- 560
- Elevation
- 177
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Bjursås kyrka 01.jpg
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- Mihai Eminescu
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- Bjursås
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Bjursås () is a locality situated in Falun Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 1,839 inhabitants in 2010.
Tourists, many of whom come from Stockholm, visit its ski resort every winter. A large part of the population commute to Falun or work within the local forest industry. Bjursås is nicknamed "The Switzerland of Dalarna", because of its broken ground. "Bjur" in the name is an old Norse word for beaver. A literal translation of the name to English means "Beaver Ridge".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bjursås” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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