Los is a
locality situated in
Ljusdal Municipality,
Gävleborg County
Gävleborg County () is a Counties of Sweden, county or ''län'' on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders the counties of Uppsala County, Uppsala, Västmanland County, Västmanland, Dalarna County, Dalarna, Jämtland County, Jämtland and V� ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
with 332 inhabitants in 2020.
The village is known for its 18th-century
cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. ...
mine, where
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt discovered the chemical element of
nickel in 1751. Today, the mine is a tourist attraction.
An 8-kilometre-wide
crater on Mars was officially named after this village in 1979. The
crater is located at 35.4°S and 76.3°W on the Martian surface.
References
Populated places in Ljusdal Municipality
Hälsingland
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