Sweden
Västmanland County
Sala Municipality

Sala

Sala is a locality and the seat of in , . As of 2010, it has a population of 12,289. Sala is the home of several famous places and people, but it is most known for its silver mine, which today is a popular tourist attraction.
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  • Type: Town with 12,300 residents
  • Description: urban area in Sala Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Sala, Sweden”
Photo: Riggwelter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Einarspetz, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aguéli museum and Sala railway station.

Museum
Photo: V-wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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

Recreation area
Photo: Riggwelter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a mine in , in in . The mine was in continuous production from the 15th century until 1908. Additional mining occurred in 1950–1951 and also in 1945–1962 in the neighbouring Bronäs Mine.

Sala

Latitude
59.9202° or 59° 55′ 13″ north
Longitude
16.6056° or 16° 36′ 20″ east
Population
12,300
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
IATA airport code
XYX
United Nations Location Code
SE SAL
Open location code
9FFRWJC4+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29916407
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2680662
Wiki­data ID
Q930262
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Sala” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سالا،السويد.”
  • Arabic: “سالا”
  • Belarusian: “Сала”
  • Bulgarian: “Сала”
  • Catalan: “Sala”
  • Cebuano: “Sala Kommun”
  • Chinese: “Sala, Sweden”
  • Chinese: “萨拉 (瑞典)”
  • Chinese: “萨拉”
  • Chinese: “薩拉 (瑞典)”
  • Croatian: “Sala”
  • Danish: “Sala”
  • Dutch: “Sala”
  • Estonian: “Sala”
  • Faroese: “Sala”
  • Finnish: “Sala”
  • French: “Sala”
  • German: “Sala”
  • Icelandic: “Sala, Svíþjóð”
  • Icelandic: “Sala”
  • Indonesian: “Sala, Swedia”
  • Indonesian: “Sala”
  • Irish: “Sala”
  • Italian: “Sala”
  • Japanese: “サラ”
  • Ladin: “Sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Sala”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sala”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sala”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sala (Swärik)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sala i Sverige”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sala”
  • Norwegian: “Sala”
  • Persian: “سالا، سوئد”
  • Persian: “ساله”
  • Polish: “Sala”
  • Portuguese: “Sala”
  • Romanian: “Sala”
  • Russian: “Сала”
  • Serbian: “Sala”
  • Serbian: “Сала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sala, Švedska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sala”
  • Slovenian: “Sala”
  • Spanish: “Sala”
  • Swedish: “Sala”
  • Turkish: “Sala, İsveç”
  • Turkish: “Sala”
  • Ukrainian: “Сала”
  • Volapük: “Sala”

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