Ekshärad is a

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Hagfors Municipality Hagfors Municipality (''Hagfors kommun'') is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Hagfors. The present municipality was created in 1974, when the City of Hagfors (itself instituted as a ...

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 ...

, Sweden with 1,074 inhabitants in 2010. Ekshärad is most famous for its historically rich church. Ekshärad is also well known for the unique ''Ekshäring'' dialect.

Notable people

* Carl-Johan Bergman, biatholonist * David Ekholm, biathlete * Lennart Hall, professor of music *

Bertil Jonasson Bertil Jonasson (12 January 1918 – 15 June 2011) was a Swedish politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create l ...

, centerpartistisk riksdagsledamot *

Lars Löfgren Lars Löfgren is a Swedish cybernetician. He was awarded the Wiener Gold Medal by the American Society for Cybernetics in 2008. Lars Löfgren was involved in extending the logical and linguistic approaches to various problems raised by early cybe ...

, head of TV-teatern and Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern *Gunnar Olsson, professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University * Sofie Skoog, high jumper

References

Populated places in Värmland County Populated places in Hagfors Municipality {{Värmland-geo-stub