Gävleborg County

Gävleborg is a province ( län) in Sweden.

Gävleborg located in the southeastern Norrland and covers most of the landscapes Gastrikland and Hälsingland. To Gävleborg also owns a part of Dalarna. The County was founded in 1762 when it was split off from Västernorrland County. It comprised at that time also Härjedalen, which passed in 1810 Jämtland County.

Geography

The territory of Gävleborg accounts for 4.4 % of the area of the Swedish territory.

Population

The proportion of the total population of Sweden is 3%.

Communities and places

Communities

Gävleborg consists of ten municipalities (Swedish: kommuner ).

(As of March 31, 2013 )

Biggest Towns

• Gävle ( 68,700 ) (population 2005)
• Sandviken ( 23,028 )
• Hudiksvall ( 14,996 )
• Bollnäs ( 12,726 )
• Söderhamn ( 12,706 )
• Hofors ( 7,438 )
• Valbo ( 6984 )
• Ljusdal ( 6,149 )

Coat of arms

In gevierten coat of arms, a running red goldbehufter moose is in the first and fourth box in silver with golden antlers accompanied by scattered blue balls and in the fields two and three in black and a raised rotbewehrte and so gezungte golden goat.

Symbol: The coat of arms of Gävleborg is made up of the coat of arms of the provinces Gästrikland and Hälsingland: the moose for Gastrikland and the goat for Hälsingland.