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Ljungan

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Discharge
  
140 m³/s

Basin area
  
12,851 km²

Country
  
Sweden

Length
  
350 km

Mouth
  
Bothnian Sea

Mouth elevation
  
0

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- average
  
140 m/s (4,944 cu ft/s)

- max
  
850 m/s (30,017 cu ft/s)

Ljungan (Jamtlandic: Jångna or Aoa, from Old Norse *Oghn "the dreadful") is a 322 kilometer long river in Sweden. It originates near Trondheim and the Norwegian border. The river runs through the Swedish counties of Jämtland and Västernorrland. Several hydropower plants are located along the river.

Map of ljungan, 862 34 Kvissleby, Sweden

A pathogenic virus of the viral family which includes polio and hepatitis A was isolated from a bank vole near the Ljungan river in the mid-1990s, and named Ljungan virus.

Some towns near or by the river are:

  • Matfors
  • Njurunda
  • Ånge
  • References

    Ljungan Wikipedia