Ånge Municipality

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name=Ånge
fullname=Ånge kommun
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capital=Ånge
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county=Västernorrland County
province=Medelpad
arearank=29th
area=3,068
areapercent=x.x
population_as_of=2005
populationrank=x| population=10,821| populationpercent=x.x
populationdensity=3.5




locationReadable=62° 31´ N, 15° 37´ E
location=62_31_N_15_37_E

Ånge Municipality ("Ånge kommun") is a municipality in Västernorrland County, northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Ånge.

The railway junction Ånge was in 1947 made a market town ("köping") 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 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 church from the 18th century.

Localities

* Alby
* Fränsta
* Ljungaverk
* Torpshammar
* Ånge (seat)
* Örtavall

Sister cities

Ånge's sister cities:
* Malvik, Norway;
* Oravais, Finland;
* Ogre, Latvia;
* Beng, Laos.

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

External links

* [http://www.ange.se Ånge] - Official site