Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
Jämtland (Swedish: [ˈjɛ̌mːtland] ⓘ) is a historical province (landskap) in the centre of Sweden in northern Europe.It borders Härjedalen and Medelpad to the south, Ångermanland to the east, Lapland to the north and Trøndelag and Norway to the west.
Jämtland County (Swedish: Jämtlands län, Southern Sami: Jiemthen leene) is a county or län in Sweden.It consists of the provinces of Jämtland and Härjedalen, along with minor parts of Hälsingland and Ångermanland, plus two small strips of Lapland and Dalarna.
This is a list of islands of Ireland.Ireland is itself an island, lying west of the island of Great Britain and northwest of mainland Europe.. The Hebrides off Scotland and Anglesey off Wales were grouped with Ireland ("Hibernia") by the Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy, [1] but this was not geographically correct and is purely of historical interest.
This is a list of countries by number of islands, with figures given for the numbers of islands within their territories. In some cases, this figure is approximate and may vary slightly between sources depending on which islands are counted. The criteria for inclusion appear to differ considerably between the countries so they are not necessarily directly comparable. Different languages use ...
Map of Härjedalen (within the blue line) The traditional provinces of Sweden serve no current administrative or political purposes, but are historical and cultural entities. In the case of Härjedalen there is a municipality , kommun , Härjedalen Municipality , which is located in the southern part of Jämtland County .
A 2013 statistics report concluded that there are 267,570 islands in Sweden, though less than 1,000 of these are inhabited. [1] The total area of the islands is 1.2 million hectares, which corresponds to 3% percent of the total land area of Sweden. Most of the islands are in the Baltic Sea regions of the Bay of Bothnia and the Bothnian Sea. [1]
Part of the city Östersund is located on the island. During most of recorded history Frösön was the regional centre of Jämtland, and it is the location of the Frösö Runestone, the northernmost in the world. The Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger had a summer house (and from 1930 a permanent home) on the island. [1]