Malung Municipality
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Municipalities of Sweden
The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 counties...
in Dalarna County
Dalarna County
Dalarna County is a county or län in middle Sweden. It borders the counties of Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland. It is also bordered by the Norwegian counties of Hedmark and Sør-Trøndelag in the west...
in central Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. Its seat is located in the town
Urban areas in Sweden
Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...
of Malung
Malung
Malung is a locality and the seat of Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 5,146 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Malung is home to Malungs Folkhögskola, a few kilometers outside downtown. Specialized courses include folk music, dance, mountaineering and health.-External links:*...
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Malung Municipality was created in 1971 by the amalgamation
Amalgamation (politics)
A merger or amalgamation in a political or administrative sense is the combination of two or more political or administrative entities such as municipalities , counties, districts, etc. into a single entity. This term is used when the process occurs within a sovereign entity...
of "old" Malung with the adjacent entities Lima
Lima, Sweden
Lima is a locality situated in Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 418 inhabitants in 2005....
and Transtrand. In 2007 the Government of Sweden
Government of Sweden
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decided to approve the present name, which took effect on January 1, 2008. The reason for the double name, the only of its kind in Sweden, is to promote the skiing resort Sälen
Sälen
Sälen is a locality situated in Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 508 inhabitants in 2005.In the winter tens of thousands of tourists enter the area. Sälen is noted for hosting the start of Vasaloppet, the oldest , longest , and largest cross country ski race in the world...
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Geography
The terrain in the area is largely submontane, with plenty of bogBog
A bog, quagmire or mire is a wetland that accumulates acidic peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses or, in Arctic climates, lichens....
and forest
Forest
A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...
. The Transtrandsfjällen in the north are the southernmost mountain
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...
s in Sweden, marking the start of the Scandinavian mountain range. Rocks are mostly metamorphic
Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rock is the transformation of an existing rock type, the protolith, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form". The protolith is subjected to heat and pressure causing profound physical and/or chemical change...
and sedimentary
Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rock are types of rock that are formed by the deposition of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water. Sedimentation is the collective name for processes that cause mineral and/or organic particles to settle and accumulate or minerals to precipitate from a solution....
, with occurrences of basalt
Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...
. Most settlements are located in and around the valley of Västerdalälven.
Localities
The municipal population was around 13,000 in the 1960s, but has decreased continually since then.The villages in the municipality, with population figures from 2005 http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2005A01/MI0810_2005A01_SM_MI38SM0601.pdf, are:
- LimaLima, SwedenLima is a locality situated in Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 418 inhabitants in 2005....
(418) - LimedsforsenLimedsforsenLimedsforsen is a locality situated in Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 443 inhabitants in 2005....
(443) - MalungMalungMalung is a locality and the seat of Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 5,146 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Malung is home to Malungs Folkhögskola, a few kilometers outside downtown. Specialized courses include folk music, dance, mountaineering and health.-External links:*...
(seat) (5,146) - MalungsforsMalungsforsMalungsfors is a locality situated in Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 559 inhabitants in 2005....
(559) - SälenSälenSälen is a locality situated in Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 508 inhabitants in 2005.In the winter tens of thousands of tourists enter the area. Sälen is noted for hosting the start of Vasaloppet, the oldest , longest , and largest cross country ski race in the world...
(508) - Is a nationally renowned skiing resort. - TranstrandTranstrandTranstrand is a locality situated in Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 373 inhabitants in 2005....
(373) - YttermalungYttermalungYttermalung is a locality situated in Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 216 inhabitants in 2005....
(216) - ÖjeÖjeÖje is a village in Malung municipality, Dalarna, Sweden. Its population was 202 people in 2000....
(202) (population figure from 2000)
Education
Malung has a folk high schoolFolk high school
Folk high schools are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal...
, specialized in folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
and folk dance
Folk dance
The term folk dance describes dances that share some or all of the following attributes:*They are dances performed at social functions by people with little or no professional training, often to traditional music or music based on traditional music....
. One notable former music student is Emma Härdelin
Emma Härdelin
Emma Härdelin is a Swedish musician. She is a violinist and lead singer in folk-rock band Garmarna, which she joined in 1993 for their first album, and also lead singer for the folk band Triakel....
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