Ånge Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 counties...

 in Västernorrland County

Västernorrland County

Västernorrland County is a county or län in the north of Sweden. It is bordered by the counties of Gävleborg, Jämtland, Västerbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia.- Province :...

, northern 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 Ånge

Ånge

Ånge is a locality and the seat of Ånge Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 2,956 inhabitants in 2005.Ånge is a railway junction where the northern main line railway connected with the central main line railway .- References :...

.

The railway junction Ånge was in 1947 made a market town (köping

Köping

This article deals with the Swedish denomination for a market town. For the city, see Köping, Sweden. For the municipality, see Köping Municipality....

) and detached from Borgsjö. In 1971 they were reunited and together with Haverö and Torp the present municipality was formed.

The municipal most known slogan is Sweden's geographical center. It was in 1947 measured by the Royal Institute of Technology

Royal Institute of Technology

The Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest institutions of higher education in technology. KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education...

 to be situated by the lake Munkbysjön (Lake Munkby), in the municipality's eastern parts. In 2002 the slogan was changed to Wonderful byways.

13 kilometers east of the town Ånge lies the town Borgsjö. It has a widely acclaimed rococo

Rococo

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 church from the 18th century.

Localities

• Alby
  Alby, Ånge
  Alby is a locality situated in Ånge Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden with 403 inhabitants in 2005....
  
  
• Fränsta
  Fränsta
  Fränsta is a locality situated in Ånge Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden with 1,243 inhabitants in 2005....
  
  
• Ljungaverk
  Ljungaverk
  Ljungaverk is a locality situated in Ånge Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden with 917 inhabitants in 2005....
  
  
• Torpshammar
  Torpshammar
  Torpshammar is a locality situated in Ånge Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden with 493 inhabitants in 2005. It was founded in 1797 as an iron milling community....
  
  
• Ånge
  Ånge
  Ånge is a locality and the seat of Ånge Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 2,956 inhabitants in 2005.Ånge is a railway junction where the northern main line railway connected with the central main line railway .- References :...
  
   (seat)
• Östavall
  Östavall
  Östavall is a locality situated in Ånge Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden with 247 inhabitants in 2005....
  
  

Sister cities

Ånge's sister cities:

• Malvik
  Malvik
  Malvik is a village and a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Trondheim Region. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Hommelvik. Other villages in Malvik include Muruvika, Smiskaret, Sneisen, Vikhammer, and Hundhammeren.While "Malvik" refers...
  
  , Norway;
• Oravais
  Oravais
  Oravais is a former municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality had a population of 2,189 and covered a land area of . The population density was...
  
  , Finland;
• Ogre, Latvia
  Ogre, Latvia
  Ogre is the principal town of Ogre District in Central Latvia, 36 km east of the capital Riga, situated at the confluence of the Daugava and Ogre rivers...
  
  ;
• Beng
  Beng
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  , Laos.

The Nordic sister cities were established in the 1940s, the others not before 1990.

External links

• Ånge - Official site