Fu is a small village in

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, Sweden. The village is located by the

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Riksväg 70, about 10 kilometres southeast of the town Mora. Approximately 50 people live in Fu and the neighboring village of Fudal. The

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, a railway that stretches from

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to Mora, passes close to the village. There used to be a small railway station in Fu, but it closed in the 1960s. The stream Fuån flows into the lake Siljan just outside of the village.

Name

According to the Swedish place-name researcher Bror Lindén, Fu is a shortened form of Fuån, which in turn derives from an Old Norse word for rottenness, ''fúi''.

References

Populated places in Mora Municipality, Sweden {{Sweden-geo-stub