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- Beautiful surroundings
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Laxsjön lies in Krokom municipality, and is also the name of the small town of Laxsjö. In 50 years, between 1960 and 2010, its population shrank from 244 to 78 people. Then the graph turned and by 2015 99 people lived in Laxsjö. Photo: Wikipedia
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Krokom municipality lies in Jämtland county and has some 14,500 citizens. It calls itself a hunting and fishing municipality, and stretches across 6,155 square kilometres, which means there are two people for every square kilometre. The municipal centre is the town of Krokom, other towns include Föllinge and Änge. Krokom is situated along the E14 road which runs between Sundsvall and Trondheim (Norway), and past the ski resorts of Åre, Duved and Storlien. Krokom is a growing municipality, but it also includes rural areas with dwindling and ageing populations, where the tax revenue is shrinking and labour is hard to find.
Krokom municipality counts 700 businesses and 320 voluntary organisations.
(Source: www.krokom.se)
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