Munkfors Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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 in Värmland County

Värmland County

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 in west central Sweden

Sweden

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. Its seat is located in the town of Munkfors

Munkfors

Munkfors is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Munkfors Municipality in Värmland County, Sweden with 3,224 inhabitants in 2005. It is also partly located in Hagfors Municipality.- References :...

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In 1952 the rural municipality Ransäter got the title of a market town (köping

Köping

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) and the name Munkfors after its only built-up locality. With the local government reform of 1971 it became a municipality of unitary type without addition of territory. The municipality is today the 9th smallest by population in Sweden.

In Ransäter

Ransäter

Ransäter is a minor locality in Munkfors Municipality, Sweden. It is the birthplace of Erik Gustaf Geijer and Tage Erlander....

 lies the Geijer School, in honour of author

Author

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 Erik Gustaf Geijer

Erik Gustaf Geijer

Erik Gustaf Geijer was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish National Romanticism. He also was an influential advocate of Liberalism.-Biography:...

 (1783-1843), who was born at the Ransäter farm. A second notable Ransäter native was Tage Erlander

Tage Erlander

was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969...

 (1901-1985), who was Prime Minister of Sweden

Prime Minister of Sweden

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 1946-1969.

The municipality has one sister city

Town twinning

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: Lindsborg, Kansas

Lindsborg, Kansas

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, U.S.A.

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External links

• Munkfors Municipality - Official site