Järvsö
Sign in to saveJärvsö (), locally known as Jarse (), is a locality and a parish situated in Ljusdal Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 1,407 inhabitants in 2010. From Järvsö, people commute to Ljusdal, Färila, Bollnäs, and Gävle. The Järv part of the town name in Swedish means "wolverine" in English.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Järvsö
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Jarvso-kyrka-1910.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Järvsö Church around 1910.
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Sweden Gävleborg#Sweden
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Sweden
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Ljusdal Municipality
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- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Gävleborg County
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hälsingland
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2.13
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 31 December 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 1,407
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 660
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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- Instance of
- urban area in Sweden
- Official name
- Järvsö
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Ljusdal Municipality
- Population
- 1592
- Area
- 447
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Stenegård.jpg
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Järvsö (), locally known as Jarse (), is a locality and a parish situated in Ljusdal Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 1,407 inhabitants in 2010. From Järvsö, people commute to Ljusdal, Färila, Bollnäs, and Gävle. The Järv part of the town name in Swedish means "wolverine" in English.
Järvsö is a tourist town known for its ski slope, Järvsöbacken, and for its zoo, known as Järvzoo, which has an extensive collection of large Nordic animals. There are also several large hotels, including Hotell Järvsöbaden and Bergshotellet. Järvsö is also famously the hometown of the singer and actress Lill-Babs (1938-2018).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Järvsö” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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