Falun Municipality () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in Dalarna County in central

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. Its seat is located in the

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Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabit ...

. Falun is the second biggest city and provincial capital of Dalarna County. Falun was originally famous for its copper mine. The present municipality was formed at the time of the local government reform of 1971, when the ''City of Falun'' and six surrounding rural municipalities were amalgamated.

Localities

* Aspeboda *

Bengtsheden Bengtsheden is a locality situated in Falun Municipality, Dalarna County, 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 ...

* Bjursås * Danholn * Grycksbo *

(seat) * Linghed * Sundborn * Svärdsjö * Sågmyra * Toftbyn * Vika

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Falun 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 59,762 residents, including 46,002 Swedish citizens of voting age. 51.8% voted for the left coalition and 46.7% for the right coalition.

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elections

Local politics

The Falu Party is a party with local interests.

Sister cities

The following places have

sister cities A sister city or a twin town relationship is International relations, a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there ar ...

agreements with Falun: * Hamina,

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Falun also has two cooperation towns without formal sistering treaty: * Kimberley,

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References

External links

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Dalarna College
- Situated in Falun {{authority control Municipalities of Dalarna County