Orsa is a locality

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...

 and the seat of Orsa Municipality

Orsa Municipality

Orsa Municipality is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Orsa.Orsa is one of a few municipalities in Sweden which has not been amalgamated, but retains its area from the time it was instituted as a municipal entity in 1863.- Geography :The town of...

, 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...

, 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....

, with 5,278 inhabitants in 2005. It is located in the northern part of lake Siljan

Siljan (lake)

Siljan, in Dalarna in central Sweden, is Sweden's sixth largest lake. The cumulative area of Siljan and the adjacent, smaller lakes Orsasjön and Insjön is . Siljan reaches a maximum depth of , and its surface is situated above sea level...

, about 15 kilometers north of the town Mora. Inlandsbanan

Inlandsbanan

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 and European route E45

European route E45

The European route E 45 goes between Sweden and Italy, through Denmark, Germany and Austria. With a length of about , it is the longest north-south European route...

 runs through the town and the railroad Bollnäs-Orsa connects.

Nature

The southern parts of Orsa are characterized by "Siljansringen", the ring of lakes and rivers in northern Dalarna formed by the big meteorite strike 365 million years ago. In central Orsa, at the ouflow of river Oreälven a sand bank has been built up, in these days enjoyed by thousands of visitors and the inhabitants of Orsa. The big forests start just north of the town of Orsa, with the sparsely populated Orsa finnmark, to which many Finns emigrated during the 17th century.

Worth seeing

• Orsa Camping, founded 1932, with its wonderful sand beach that are located at the Orsa Lake
  Orsa Lake
  Orsa Lake is a lake in the Swedish province Dalarna. It is connected to Siljan by a 4 km long narrow sound, Moranoret.Orsa Lake is 14 km long and 6.5 km wide. The lake has an area of 53 km² and the largest depth reaches to 94 meters....
  
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• Orsa spelmän
  Orsa Spelmän
  Orsa Spelmän is a folk music sextet from Orsa in Sweden, which was founded in 1987. Benny Andersson, the former ABBA member, is a founding member of the group.In 2006, the member Kalle Moraeus was awarded Povel Ramels Karamelodiktstipendium....
  
  , (Orsa folk lore musicians) which Benny Andersson
  Benny Andersson
  Göran Bror "Benny" Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!...
  
   from Abba
  Abba
  ABBA is the name of a former Swedish pop music group.Abba may also refer to:* ABBA , a self-titled album by the Swedish pop music group ABBA* "Abba ", a song by Christian pop and rock artist, Rebecca St...
  
   use to play with.
• Finding your roots, many people migrated
  Human migration
  Human migration is physical movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. Historically this movement was nomadic, often causing significant conflict with the indigenous population and their displacement or cultural assimilation. Only a few nomadic...
  
   to the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   from Orsa, most commonly to Minnesota
  Minnesota
  Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
  
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• Skattungbyn
  Skattungbyn
  Skattungbyn is a locality situated in Orsa Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 266 inhabitants in 2005....
  
   a small village with an undescribeable view over the river Oreälven
  Oreälven
  A smaller influx of Lake Orsasjön is the Oreälven in Sweden with a length of approx. 110 kilometres. The river has an extensive set of salmons and the water quality is class I. Many athletes like to use the river for rafting purposes....
  
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• Orsayran (The Orsa Dizzying) a summer festival, with a lot of music, each wednesday in july.
• Orsa slipstensmuseum a museum of the making of the famous grindstones of Orsa, located in Mässbacken.
• Helvetesfallet and Storstupet nice waterfalls in river Ämån 20 km north of Orsa
• Orsa Grönklitt
  Orsa Grönklitt
  Orsa Grönklitt is a wildlife park noted for its bears, and ski resort, 350 kilometres from Stockholm in the municipality of Orsa. During the winter months it is a major ski resort and hosts numerous competitions including a skiing marathon....
  
  . A wilderness center with wilderness activities, bear- and animal park during the summer and a wonderful ski resort during the winter.
• Orsa Bear Park. One of the worlds biggest bear parks. It contains Scandinavian brown bear, Kamtjatka bear, Polar World with the Polar bear, Leopard center and Tiger Mountain with the Siberian Tigers. Rovdjurscentrum (The Predator Center) is a nice museum at the entrance of the bear park.

Orsamål dialect

About 500 people speak the orsamål

Orsamål dialect

Orsamål is a dialect of Dalecarlian. Orsamål is spoken within the Orsa municipality in northern Dalecarlia.-History:Dalecarlian is a North Germanic language that has probably existed since the Swedish language separated from Norwegian. Dalecarlian is divided into three geographical areas;...

 dialect, an old scandinavian language, which is a variant of dalecarlian, also called Old Swedish

Old Swedish

Old Swedish is the name for two separate stages of the Swedish language that were spoken in the Middle Ages: Early Old Swedish , spoken from around 1225 until 1375, and Late Old Swedish , spoken from 1375 until 1526.Old Swedish developed from Old East Norse, the eastern dialect of Old Norse...

in Minnesota, USA.