Lesjöfors is a

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situated in

Filipstad Municipality Filipstad Municipality (''Filipstads kommun'') is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Filipstad. The present municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Filipstad was merged with the ...

Värmland County Värmland County (''Värmlands län'') is a county or '' län'' in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Viken and Innlandet to the west. Prince Carl P ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

with 1,062 inhabitants in 2010. Located in the Bergslagen area, where mining and metal preparation historically was the leading industry, the town grew up around the local industry (''bruk'') founded there in 1642. Lesjöfors was the site of the

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in 2003. It is famous within Sweden for

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

and has produced many players for the

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. It has hosted a stage of the Swedish rally.

References

External links

Lesjöfors InfoLesjöfors MuseumLesjöfors Industry
Populated places in Värmland County Populated places in Filipstad Municipality Swedish Rally {{Värmland-geo-stub