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Hofors Municipality
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municipality in Gävleborg County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Gävleborg County
- Seat
- Hofors
- Total
- 445.71 km (172.09 sq mi)
- Land
- 409.94 km (158.28 sq mi)
- Water
- 35.77 km (13.81 sq mi)
- Density
- 22.48/km (58.23/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Gästrikland
- Website
- www.hofors.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Gävleborg County
- Capital
- Hofors
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 9138
- Area
- 35.8
- Shares border with
- Avesta Municipality
- Employees
- 1125
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.hofors.se
- Image
- Hofors centrum.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Fladså Municipality
- short name
- Hofors
- topic's main category
- Category:Hofors Municipality
- Commons category
- Hofors Municipality
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- catchphrase
- Sveriges vänligaste kommun
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.hofors.se/kommun--politik/politik/medborgarforslag.html
- phone number
- +46-290-29000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/hofors_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Hofors Municipality (Swedish: Hofors kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, east central Sweden. Its seat is in Hofors with 7,400 inhabitants, situated at 60°33′N 16°17′E / 60.550°N 16.283°E / 60.550; 16.283.
The first municipality with the name of Hofors was broken away from Torsåker in 1925. In 1971 the two entities were reunited to form the present municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hofors Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.