Falun is a city in Dalarna, central Sweden, the seat of Falun Municipality and the capital of Dalarna County. The city is the home of 36,500 of the municipality's 55,000 inhabitants Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with close to 100,000 inhabitants. Falun is still today an important service and industrial city even though the mine is closed (since 1992). History The town of Falun is known to have existed in the 14th century as a market place for the surroundin… (More on Falun)