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Borlänge

Borlänge (bôr'leng"u) [key], city (1990 pop. 39,150), Kopparberg co., S central Sweden, on the Dalälven River; chartered 1944. It has major factories manufacturing iron, steel, and paper and also has sawmills, machine shops, slaughterhouses, leather goods factories, and a school of engineering.

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