Ånge Municipality (''Ånge kommun'') is a

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Västernorrland County Västernorrland County ( sv, Västernorrlands län) is a county (''län'') in the north of Sweden. It is bordered by the counties of Gävleborg, Jämtland, Västerbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia. The name ''Västernorrland'' means "Western Norrl ...

, northern

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. Its seat is located in

Ånge Ånge is a locality and the seat of Ånge Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 2,872 inhabitants in 2010. Ånge is a railway junction where the northern main line railway ('' Norra Stambanan'') connects with the central main line ...

. The railway junction Ånge was in 1947 made a market town (''

köping ''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word ''kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Munici ...

'') and detached from ''Borgsjö''. In 1971 they were reunited and together with ''Haverö'' and ''Torp'' the present municipality was formed. The municipal most known slogan is ''Sweden's geographical center''. It was in 1947 measured by the

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to be situated by the lake Munkbysjön (''Lake Munkby''), in the municipality's eastern parts. In 2002 the slogan was changed to ''Wonderful byways''. 13 kilometers east of the town Ånge lies the town Borgsjö. It has a widely acclaimed

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church from the 18th century.

Localities

* Alby * Fränsta * Ljungaverk * Torpshammar *

(seat) * Östavall

Sister cities

Ånge's

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: *

Malvik Malvik is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Trondheim Region. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Hommelvik. Other villages in Malvik include Muruvika, Smiskaret, Sneisen, Vikhammer, an ...

, Norway; *

Oravais Oravais ( fi, Oravainen) is a List of former municipalities of Finland, former municipality of Finland. It is located in the provinces of Finland, province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia (region), Ostrobothnia regions of Finland ...

, Finland; *

Ogre, Latvia Ogre (; german: Oger; lt, Uogrė) (population 26,573 in 2000 census) is the state city in Ogre Municipality (and previously Ogre District) in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, east of the capital Riga, situated at the confluence of the Daugava an ...

; *

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, Laos. The Nordic sister cities were established in the 1940s, the others not before 1990.

References

External links

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Ånge
- Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Ange Municipality Municipalities of Västernorrland County