Skåre, Sweden - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Skåre is a locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

situated in Karlstad Municipality

Karlstad Municipality

Karlstad Municipality is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Karlstad....

, Värmland County

Värmland County

Värmland County is a county or län in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Østfold, Akershus and Hedmark to the west.- Province :...

, 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....

with 5,173 inhabitants in 2005. The town grew up around the railway station which was an important transshipment

Transshipment

Transshipment or Transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, and then from there to yet another destination....

point: goods transported on the Klarälven River

Klarälven

Klarälven is a river flowing through Norway and Sweden. Together with Göta älv, which it is called as the river has passed through the lake Vänern, thus regarded as an entity, Göta älv-Klarälven is the longest river in Scandinavia and in the Nordic countries and its Swedish part the longest river...

were here transferred to rail for onward conveyance, and vice versa http://w1.181.telia.com/~u18116951/nvsb/linje/skare.htm.

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