Färgelanda Municipality

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**Färgelanda Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Västra Götaland County in Sweden Färgelanda in central V. G. County in Sweden Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Färgelanda
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	County	Västra Götaland County
	Province	Dalsland
	Area Rank	593 km² x of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	6,886 261st of 290
	Density	11/km²

Färgelanda municipality is a small Swedish Municipality in Västra Götaland County, in western Sweden. Its seat is in Färgelanda (pop. 2,000).

Its coat of arms are based on a medieval seal depicting a harrow. It symbolizes agriculture.

[edit] Towns

Urban areas larger than 200 inh.

Färgelanda 2,000
Högsäter 750
Ödeborg 700
Stigen 350

[edit] Tourism

The scarsely populated municipalities in the historical province Dalsland, with a total of 50,000 inhabitants, have a unified tourism information. Färgelanda with its low population are preferring to boast its nature. There are several opportunities for fishing, and Ellenösjön being a popular lake for pikeperch fishing. The nature revserve in Kroppefjäll offers walking lines and a mountaneuos nature. There are also good possibilities for canoeing and swimming in the many lakes and streams.

Färgelanda also has an old and well preserved ancienct history. Rock carvings in Ödeborg are located by Brötegården Museum; furthermore there are some 140 grave fields from the Iron Age scattered in the municipality. Seomthing in between a museum and a folk museum is Ödeborg's Fornsal, with more than 6,000 objects gathered from Dalsland in the last millenias.

[edit] External links

Ödeborg's fornsal In Swedish, English, German. (Link added and works August 2005)
Färgelanda - Official site currently only redirecting to:
Dalsland - Official page for Dalsland municipalities (in Aug. 2005 only avail. in Swedish)

Municipalities in Västra Götaland County