Bollnäs
Sign in to saveBollnäs () is a Swedish locality and the seat of Bollnäs Municipality, in Gävleborg County, Sweden. It has about 14,000 inhabitants.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Bollnäs
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- Bollnäs Missionskyrka.JPG
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- Bollnäs Missionskyrka
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- Sweden Gävleborg#Sweden
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Sweden
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- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Bollnäs Municipality
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- County
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- Gävleborg County
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hälsingland
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1942
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 12.87
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 31 December 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 12,381
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 998
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Bollnäs () is a Swedish locality and the seat of Bollnäs Municipality, in Gävleborg County, Sweden. It has about 14,000 inhabitants.
== History == The first recording of Bollnäs in writing is from 1312 when a vicar named Ingemund referred to it as Baldenaes, meaning "the large isthmus," referring to the isthmus into a nearby lake. Before becoming known as Bollnäs, its name was Bro By (lit. Bridge Village).