Hofors
Sign in to saveHofors () is a locality and the seat of Hofors Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 6,681 inhabitants in 2010.
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- Hofors
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- Hofors centrum.jpg
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- Coat of arms
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- Central Hofors in February 2009
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- Sweden Gävleborg#Sweden
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- Country
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- Sweden
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- Municipality
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- Hofors Municipality
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- County
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- Gävleborg County
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- Gästrikland
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 6.97
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 31 December 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 6,681
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 958
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Hofors () is a locality and the seat of Hofors Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 6,681 inhabitants in 2010.
==Districts== Born Böle Bönhusberget Centrum Göklund Hammaren Lillån Muntebo Rönningen Silverdalen Standarn Västerhöjden Robertsholm Fagersta by Långnäs Barkhyttan Stenshyttan The town of Hofors evolved around an iron industry in the 17th century, which eventually developed into one of Sweden's foremost ironworks, and a subsidiary of the SKF group.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hofors” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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