Ljungan
Sign in to saveLjungan (Jamtlandic: Jångna or Aoa, from Old Norse *Oghn "the dreadful") is a 322 kilometer long river in Sweden. It originates near Trondheim and the Norwegian border. The river runs through the Swedish counties of Jämtland and Västernorrland. Several hydropower plants are located along the river.
Key facts
- River.name
- Ljungan
- River.image
- Ljungan.JPG
- River.map
- Ljungan map.png
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Sweden
- River.subdivision_type3
- County
- River.mouth
- Bothnian Sea
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Jämtland County
- Image
- Ljungan December 2016 01.jpg
- Length
- 350
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- Commons category
- Ljungan
- lake on watercourse
- Börtnen
- watershed area
- 12851
- origin of the watercourse
- Scandinavian Mountains
- discharge
- 140.0
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Ljungan (Jamtlandic: Jångna or Aoa, from Old Norse *Oghn "the dreadful") is a 322 kilometer long river in Sweden. It originates near Trondheim and the Norwegian border. The river runs through the Swedish counties of Jämtland and Västernorrland. Several hydropower plants are located along the river.
A pathogenic virus of the viral family which includes polio and hepatitis A was isolated from a bank vole near the Ljungan river in the mid-1990s, and named Ljungan virus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ljungan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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