Hoting is a
locality
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* Locality (linguistics)
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situated in
Tåsjö parish,
Strömsund Municipality
Strömsund Municipality (, ) is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Strömsund.
The nearest larger city is Östersund, the provincial capital of Jämtland, which is located approximately 100 km t ...
,
Jämtland County
Jämtland County ( sv, Jämtlands län, ) is a county or ''län'' in the middle of Sweden consisting of the provinces of Jämtland and Härjedalen, along with minor parts of Hälsingland and Ångermanland, plus two small uninhabited strips of ...
,
Sweden with 667 inhabitants in 2010.
Hoting was mentioned in documents regarding Sweden/Norway border rulings in 1273.
Climate
Hoting has a
subarctic climate. Located in northern Jämtland at a great distance from both the Atlantic and the Bothnian seas, it has a more continental climate than the regional seat
Östersund
Östersund (; sma, Staare) is an urban area (city) in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. It is the seat of Östersund Municipality and the capital of Jämtland County. Östersund is located at the shores of Sweden's fifth-largest lake, Storsjön, ...
, leading to warmer summers in spite of the higher latitude. Winters are cold by Swedish standards for the latitude due to being located at a distance from both the
North Atlantic and the
Bothnian Bay
The Bothnian Bay or Bay of Bothnia (; ) is the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia, which is in turn the northern part of the Baltic Sea. The land holding the bay is still rising after the weight of ice-age glaciers has been removed, and wit ...
.
References
Populated places in Strömsund Municipality
Ångermanland
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