Hertsön is a residential area in

Luleå Luleå ( , , locally ; smj, Luleju; fi, Luulaja) is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban core (2018) and is the seat of Lu ...

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. It had 5,436 inhabitants in 2010, making it one of the largest districts in Luleå. The district was built in the 1970s as part of the

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, due to the planned construction of a new

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(Stålverk 80, a major expansion of the existing ''Norrbottens Järnverk'' steelworks), which was expected to give the city a large increase in population. As the plans of the new steel mill were binned, following the victory of the centre/right-wing coalition in the

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of 1976, there have periodically been many empty apartments in the area.

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Hertsön
at Luleå Municipality Luleå {{norrbotten-geo-stub