Dalarna
Dalarna, latinized form Dalecarlia, is a province and county in the region Svealand, in Sweden. It has a population of almost 280,000; nearly half of them in the southeastern twin cities Borlänge and Falun.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Falun and Borlänge.
Falun
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Falun is the administrative centre of the Dalarna province in Sweden. It's the largest town in the area with about 40,000 inhabitants, slightly more than its close neighbour and friendly rival Borlänge.
Borlänge
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Borlänge is a town in the Dalarna province in Sweden. It has a population of roughly 51,000, slightly less than its close neighbor Falun.
Mora
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Mora is a city in the Dalarna province in Sweden. It is on the shore of Lake Siljan, the sixth largest lake in Sweden. The municipality of Mora has about 20,000 inhabitants.
Destinations to Discover
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Dalabergslagen
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Dalabergslagen is the southern part of Dalarna; more fertile and populated than the rest of the province, south of Siljansbygden. Borlänge and Falun are the dominant cities, and traditional rivals.
Siljansbygden
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Siljansbygden is the region around lake Siljan in the Dalarna province in Sweden. The folk culture around the lake is known as an archetype of Swedishness, with many icons, such as the Midsummer pole, the Dala Horse, the Mora Knives, and hard bread.
Västerdalarna
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Västerdalarna is the western part of Dalarna, at the border to Norway. The region contains the tallest mountains of the province, and is less populated than Siljansbygden and Dalabergslagen.
Dalarna
- Type: county of Sweden with 284,000 residents
- Description: county (län) in Sweden
- Also known as: “Dalarna County”, “Dalarnas län”, “Dalarnas Län”, “Dalecarlia”, “Dalecarlia County”, “Dales”, “Kopparberg County”, “Kopparbergs län”, and “SE312”
- Historically known as: “Kopparberg” and “Kopparbergs Län”
- Neighbors: Gävleborg County, Hedmark, Jämtland County, Örebro County, and Uppsala County
- Location: Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Dalarna” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “qarku i Dalarnës”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة دالارنا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة دالارناس”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة دالرناس”
- Aragonese: “Condau de Dalarna”
- Armenian: “Դալարնա”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Dalarna”
- Balinese: “County Dalarna”
- Basque: “Dalarna”
- Basque: “Dalarnako konderria”
- Basque: “Dalekarliako konderria”
- Bavarian: “Dalarnas län”
- Belarusian: “Даларна (лен)”
- Belarusian: “Даларна”
- Belarusian: “Далярна”
- Belarusian: “лен Даларна”
- Bengali: “দালার্না কাউন্টি”
- Bosnian: “Dalarnas län”
- Bosnian: “Kotar Dalarna”
- Bosnian: “Okrug Dalarna”
- Bulgarian: “Даларна”
- Bulgarian: “провинция Даларна”
- Catalan: “comtat de Dalarna”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Dalarna”
- Cebuano: “Dalarnas län”
- Chinese: “Dalarna Koān”
- Chinese: “科帕爾貝里省”
- Chinese: “达拉纳省”
- Chinese: “达拉那省”
- Chinese: “達拉納省”
- Cornish: “Konteth Dalarna”
- Croatian: “Dalarnas län”
- Croatian: “Županija Dalarna”
- Czech: “Dalarna”
- Danish: “Dalarnas län”
- Danish: “Kopparbergs län”
- Dutch: “Dalarna”
- Dutch: “Dalarnas lan”
- Dutch: “Dalarnas län”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة دالارنا”
- Esperanto: “Dalarnas län”
- Esperanto: “Kopparbergs län”
- Estonian: “Dalarna lään”
- Faroese: “Dalarnas län”
- Finnish: “Kopparbergin lääni”
- Finnish: “Taalainmaan lääni”
- French: “Comté de Dalarna”
- French: “Comte de Dalecarlie”
- French: “Comté de Dalécarlie”
- French: “Dalarna”
- French: “Dalécarlie”
- French: “Département de Dalarna”
- Galician: “Condado de Dalarna”
- Galician: “Dalarna”
- Georgian: “დალარნის პროვინცია”
- German: “Dalarnas län”
- German: “Kopparbergs län”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Ντάλαρνα”
- Greek: “Ντάλαρνα”
- Gujarati: “દાલર્ના કાઉન્ટી”
- Hebrew: “דלרנה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז דלרנה”
- Hindi: “डलारना काउंटी”
- Hindi: “दालारना लैन”
- Hungarian: “Dalarna megye”
- Icelandic: “Dalir (Svíþjóð)”
- Icelandic: “Dalir”
- Ido: “Komtio Dalarna”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Dalarna”
- Indonesian: “Dalarna”
- Indonesian: “Dalarnas län”
- Irish: “Dalarnas län”
- Italian: “Contea di Dalarna”
- Japanese: “コッパルベリ県”
- Japanese: “ダーラナ”
- Japanese: “ダーラナ県”
- Kannada: “ದಲರ್ನಾ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “달라르나주”
- Korean: “코파르베리 주”
- Kurdish: “Dalarna”
- Kurdish: “Dalarnas län”
- Kurdish: “دالارناس لäن”
- Ladin: “Contea de Dalarna”
- Latin: “Dalecarliae Comitatus”
- Latvian: “Dalarnas lēne”
- Latvian: “Dālarnas lēne”
- Latvian: “Dalarnas lēnis”
- Limburgan: “Dalarnas län”
- Lithuanian: “Dalarna”
- Lombard: “contea de Dalarna”
- Lombard: “Contea de Dalarna”
- Low German: “Lehn Dalarna”
- Macedonian: “Даларна”
- Macedonian: “Округ Даларна”
- Malay: “Daerah Dalarna”
- Maltese: “Dalarnas län”
- Marathi: “डालर्न काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dalarna Kōan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dalarnas Kōan”
- Mingrelian: “დალარნა (ლენი)”
- Mingrelian: “დალარნა”
- Northern Frisian: “Dalarna”
- Northern Sami: “Dalarna leatna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dalarnas län”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kopparbergs län”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dalarnas län”
- Norwegian: “Dalarnas län”
- Ossetian: “Даларнæ (лен)”
- Ossetian: “Даларнæ”
- Persian: “استان دالارنا”
- Persian: “شهرستان دالارنا”
- Polish: “Dalarna”
- Portuguese: “Condado da Dalecárlia”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Dalarna”
- Portuguese: “Dalarna”
- Portuguese: “Dalarnas”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Dalarna”
- Romanian: “Dalarnas län”
- Russian: “Даларна”
- Russian: “Коппарберг”
- Russian: “Лен Даларна”
- Russian: “Лен Коппарберг”
- Rusyn: “Край Даларна”
- Scots: “Dalarna Coonty”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dalarnas län”
- Serbian: “Dalarna”
- Serbian: “Даларна”
- Serbian: “Даларнски округ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dalarna”
- Sinhala: “ඩලමා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Dalarna”
- Slovenian: “Dalarnas län”
- Slovenian: “Dalarnsko okrožje”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Dalarna”
- Spanish: “Condado de Dalarna”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Dalarna”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Dalecarlia”
- Swahili: “Dalarnas län”
- Swedish: “Dalarnas län”
- Swedish: “Kopparbergs län”
- Swedish: “SE-W”
- Swedish: “Stora Kopparbergs län”
- Tamil: “டாலர்னா கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “డాలామా కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลดอลานา”
- Turkish: “Dalarna ili”
- Turkish: “Dalarna lan”
- Turkish: “Dalarna län”
- Turkish: “Dalarna”
- Turkish: “Dalarnas lan”
- Turkish: “Dalarnas län”
- Ukrainian: “Даларна”
- Ukrainian: “Коппарберг (лен)”
- Urdu: “دالارنا کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “Dalarna län”
- Vietnamese: “Dalarna”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Dalarna”
- Volapük: “Dalarniän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Dalarna”
- Welsh: “Sir Dalarna”
- Western Frisian: “Dalarnas län”
- Western Panjabi: “دالارنا”
- Wu Chinese: “达拉纳省”
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