Borlänge Municipality () is a

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Dalarna County Dalarna County () 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 and Trøndelag to ...

in central

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, with an area of 586.4 km². The municipality has a population of 47,640 (2007). The municipal seat is

Borlänge Borlänge () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 44,898 inhabitants as of 2020. It is the seat of the Borlänge Municipality which as of 2017 had a total population of 51,604 inhabitants. History Originally Bor ...

. The present municipality was created in 1971 when the ''City of Borlänge'' (itself instituted as a

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in 1944) was reunited with the rural municipality of Stora Tuna, from which it had been detached in 1898.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Borlänge Municipality's electoral districts in the

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sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 52,132 residents, including 38,802 Swedish citizens of voting age. 49.0% voted for the left coalition and 49.5% for the right coalition.

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elections

Education

* Dalarna University College * Soltorgsgymnasiet

Notable natives

* Jussi Björling, tenor * Lars Frölander, swimmer * Mando Diao, rock band * Sugarplum Fairy, pop band * Per Fosshaug, bandy player * Dozer, stoner rock band * Erik Eriksson, Centre Party's first chairman * Lars Jonsson, ice hockey player * Sator, rock band * Linda Carlsson, musician (also known as Miss Li) * Tove Alexandersson, orienteering, ski-orienteering and skyrunning world champion * Per Johansson, swimmer

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