Ludvika is a bimunicipal 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...

 and the seat of Ludvika Municipality

Ludvika Municipality

Ludvika Municipality is a municipality in Dalarna County, central Sweden. It has its seat in the town of Ludvika.In 1971 the City of Ludvika was amalgamated with the adjacent municipalities of Grangärde and Säfsnäs, forming the present entity.- Localities :Figures as of 2004.#Ludvika ...

, Dalarna County

Dalarna County

Dalarna County is a county or län in middle Sweden. It borders the counties of Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland. It is also bordered by the Norwegian counties of Hedmark and Sør-Trøndelag in the west...

, Sweden

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, with 14,018 inhabitants in 2005.

Overview

The conurbation of Ludvika extends over the border of Smedjebacken Municipality

Smedjebacken Municipality

Smedjebacken Municipality is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Smedjebacken....

, where about 400 inhabitants live.

Ludvika is situated by a lake called Väsman, in the south-east part of the municipality.

Population of Ludvika as of 2005 distributed by municipalities:

Municipality	Population in Ludvika	Other urban areas	Other	Total	% of municipality population
Ludvika Ludvika Municipality Ludvika Municipality is a municipality in Dalarna County, central Sweden. It has its seat in the town of Ludvika.In 1971 the City of Ludvika was amalgamated with the adjacent municipalities of Grangärde and Säfsnäs, forming the present entity.- Localities :Figures as of 2004.#Ludvika ...	13.726	9,234	3,232	26,450	52.87
Smedjebacken Smedjebacken Municipality Smedjebacken Municipality is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Smedjebacken....	392	7,595	3,577	11,598	3.67
Total SUM SUM can refer to:* The State University of Management* Soccer United Marketing* Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures* StartUp-Manager* Software User’s Manual,as from DOD-STD-2 167A, and MIL-STD-498...	14,018	16,829	6,809	38,048	37.87

Distances to other cities

• From Stockholm
  Stockholm
  Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
  
   to Ludvika it is: 234 km.
• From Gothenburg
  Gothenburg
  Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
  
   to Ludvika it is: 400 km.
• From London
  London
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   to Ludvika it is: 1975 km.

Notable natives

• Stefan Anderson
  Stefan Anderson
  Knut Stefan Anderson was a Swedish industrialist, journalist and master craftsman watchmaker decorated with badges of chivalric orders by the Kings of Sweden, Denmark and Norway and the President of Finland.He published articles and a whole series of trade papers, often using the pseudonym...
  
  
• Dan Andersson
  Dan Andersson
  Daniel "Dan" Andersson was a Swedish author and poet. He also set some of his own poems to music. Andersson married primary school teacher Olga Turesson, the sister of artist Gunnar Turesson, in 1918...
  
  
• Hypocrisy
  Hypocrisy (band)
  Hypocrisy is a melodic death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter Tägtgren.Musically, the band started off with a traditional death metal sound on their first albums, and soon drifted to become a melodic death metal band. The lyrics in their early stages -...
  
  
• Charlie Norman
• Birgit Ridderstedt
  Birgit Ridderstedt
  Birgit Ridderstedt was a Swedish-American folk singer and cultural ambassador who appeared at festivals and on television in the 1950s and early 1960s with material she produced herself.-Background:...