Ludvika Municipality (''Ludvika kommun'') is a

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Dalarna County Dalarna County ( sv, Dalarnas län) is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden (Svealand). It borders on the counties of Uppsala, Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland. It also borders on the Norwegian counties of Hedmark ...

, central

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. It has its seat in the town of

Ludvika Ludvika () is a bimunicipal city and the seat of Ludvika Municipality, Dalarna County within the country of Sweden, with 14,498 inhabitants in 2010. Overview The conurbation of Ludvika extends over the border of Smedjebacken Municipality, where a ...

. In 1971 the City of Ludvika (itself instituted as such in 1919) was amalgamated with the adjacent municipalities of Grangärde and Säfsnäs, forming the present entity.

Localities

Figures as of 2004. #

13,724 #

Grängesberg Grängesberg () is a locality situated in Ludvika Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 3,481 inhabitants in 2010. The town was dominated by iron-ore extraction at Grängesberg ore field (Grängesbergs malmfält) from the 16th century to 198 ...

3,356 # Sunnansjö 758 # Saxdalen 752 # Fredriksberg 741 # Nyhammar 682 # Sörvik 540 # Blötberget 529 # Persbo/Gräsberg 459 # Gonäs 432 # Landforsen/Håksberg 438 #

Grangärde Grangärde is a locality situated in Ludvika Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 351 inhabitants in 2010. ''Grangärde Court District'', or ''Grangärde tingslag'', was a district of Dalarna in Sweden. The court district ('' tingslag'') ser ...

374 * Other/countryside 2,967

Economy

Largest employers in Ludvika: # Hitachi ABB Power Grids 2,400 # County medical facilities 600 #

Spendrups Spendrups Bryggeri AB is a Swedish brewery founded in 1897 as Grängesbergs Bryggeri AB. The company includes the following subsidiaries Spring Wine & Spirits, Gotlands Bryggeri and Hellefors Bryggeri. Spendrups Group has approximately 900 employ ...

brewery 285 # VBU Västerbergslagens Utbildningscentrum 220 # RSV Tax Office 110 # Samhall-gruppen 80 # GIA Industri AB 75 # Brunnsviks folkhögskola 75 # Connex Sverige AB 70 #

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70 # ISS Cleaning 60

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elections

Twin Towns & Sister cities

Ludvika has three twin towns: *

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Sports

Many sport teams have their origins in Ludvika Municipality. The

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

teams "Östansbo IS" (ÖIS), "

Ludvika FK Ludvika FK is a Swedish football club located in Ludvika in Dalarna County. Background Since their foundation Ludvika FK has participated mainly in the upper and middle divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club plays in Divisio ...

" (LFK, male) and "IFK Ludvika" (female) come from Ludvika and play in divisions 4 and 3. All three also have junior teams. There is also an

ice-hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice ho ...

team, Ludvika Hockey Förening Lightning. Other teams include

ping-pong Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

teams as well as other sports.

References

External links

Ludvika
- Official site {{authority control Municipalities of Dalarna County