Borlänge Municipality
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municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Dalarna County
- Seat
- Borlänge
- Total
- 635.81 km (245.49 sq mi)
- Land
- 583.87 km (225.43 sq mi)
- Water
- 51.94 km (20.05 sq mi)
- Density
- 88.151/km (228.31/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Dalarna
- Website
- www.borlange.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Dalarna County
- Capital
- Borlänge
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 51354
- Area
- 51.98
- Elevation
- 132
- Head of government
- Peter Hultqvist
- Shares border with
- Leksand Municipality
- Employees
- 5125
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.borlange.se
- Image
- Borlange sveatorget.jpg
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- Category:Borlänge Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Pitești
- Commons category
- Borlänge Municipality
- short name
- Borlänge
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Borlänge Municipality
- owner of
- Domnarvsvallen
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- catchphrase
- Trevligt folk
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.borlange.se/kommun-och-politik/dialog-och-synpunkter/medborgarforslag
- phone number
- +46-243-74000
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/borlange_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Borlänge Municipality (Swedish: Borlänge kommun) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden, with an area of 586.4 km. The municipality has a population of 47,640 (2007). The municipal seat is Borlänge.
The present municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Borlänge (itself instituted as a city in 1944) was reunited with the rural municipality of Stora Tuna, from which it had been detached in 1898.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Borlänge Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.