Sweden
Svealand
Dalarna

Falun Municipality

Falun Municipality is a municipality in in central . Its seat is located in the city of . Falun is the second biggest city and provincial capital of .
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  • Type: Municipality with 59,900 residents
  • Description: municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “2080” and “Falu kommun”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mine museum and Falun city library.

Museum
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Library
Photo: Vitplister, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Railway station
Photo: Skvattram, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Falun and Falun Mine.

Photo: Fabimaru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the administrative centre of the province in . It's the largest town in the area with about 40,000 inhabitants, slightly more than its close neighbour and friendly rival .

Locality
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was a mine in , , that operated for a millennium from the 10th century to 1992. It produced as much as two-thirds of Europe's copper needs and helped fund many of Sweden's wars in the 17th century.

Neighborhood
Photo: Matthias Wilke, Public domain.
is a large sport complex located in , . 58 of the Swedish Sports Confederation's 67 special sports can be practiced there. There are six full sized indoor pitches in the area where everything from dance to association football can be played or performed.

Falun Municipality

Latitude
60.6016° or 60° 36′ 6″ north
Longitude
15.6368° or 15° 38′ 12″ east
Population
59,900
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
Open location code
9FGQJJ2P+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2499166991
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
2715458
Wiki­data ID
Q501545
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Falun Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدية فالون”
  • Armenian: “Ֆալուն”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Falu (Suecia)”
  • Asturian: “Falu kommun”
  • Asturian: “Falu”
  • Basque: “Falun udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Фалун”
  • Belarusian: “Фалюн”
  • Bulgarian: “Фалю”
  • Catalan: “Falun”
  • Cebuano: “Faluns Kommun”
  • Chinese: “Falun Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “法伦市镇”
  • Chinese: “法倫市鎮”
  • Czech: “Falu kommun”
  • Czech: “Falun”
  • Danish: “Falu kommun”
  • Danish: “Falu Kommune”
  • Dutch: “Falun”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلدية فالون”
  • Esperanto: “Falu kommun”
  • Esperanto: “Falun”
  • Esperanto: “komunumo Falun”
  • Estonian: “Faluni vald”
  • Faroese: “Falu kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Falun kunta”
  • Finnish: “Falunin kunta”
  • French: “Commune de Falun”
  • French: “Falun”
  • Galician: “Falu (municipio)”
  • Galician: “Falu”
  • German: “Falu kommun”
  • German: “Falun”
  • German: “Gemeinde Falun”
  • Hebrew: “פאלון”
  • Italian: “Falun”
  • Italian: “Municipalità di Falun”
  • Japanese: “ファールン市”
  • Korean: “팔룬시”
  • Ladin: “Falun”
  • Limburgan: “Falun”
  • Lithuanian: “Faliunas”
  • Lombard: “Falu”
  • Low German: “Kommun Falu”
  • Macedonian: “Фалун”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Falun Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Falun (Komuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Falun”
  • Northern Sami: “Falu gielda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Falu kommun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Falun kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falu kommun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falu kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falun kommun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falun kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faluns kommun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faluns kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falus kommun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falus kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Falu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Falun”
  • Norwegian: “Falu kommune”
  • Persian: “بخش فالون”
  • Polish: “Gmina Falun”
  • Portuguese: “Falun”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Falun”
  • Russian: “Фалун”
  • Slovenian: “Falu kommun”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Falun”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Falun (Suecia)”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Falun”
  • Swedish: “Falu kommun”
  • Swedish: “Falun kommun”
  • Swedish: “Faluns kommun”
  • Ukrainian: “Фалун”
  • Vietnamese: “Falun”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Falun”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Gahnshagen and Elsborg.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Tiskbron and Praktiska Gymnasiet Falun.

Dalarna: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Falun, Borlänge, Mora, and Ludvika.

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