Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Dalarna County
- Seat
- Falun
- Total
- 2,275.17 km (878.45 sq mi)
- Land
- 2,040.13 km (787.70 sq mi)
- Water
- 235.04 km (90.75 sq mi)
- Density
- 29.368/km (76.062/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Dalarna
- Website
- www.falun.se
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Falun Municipality (Swedish: Falu kommun) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Falun. Falun is the second biggest city and provincial capital of Dalarna County. Falun was originally famous for its copper mine.
The present municipality was formed at the time of the local government reform of 1971, when the City of Falun and six surrounding rural municipalities were amalgamated.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Falun Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.