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area in the country and a significant port. Important industrial installations include those producing mechanical and electrical equipment, light aircraft, machine tools, copper, cement, chemicals, rubber products, and textiles. Malmo and Halsingborg (population about 83,000) have storage facilities for crude oil and refined petroleum products that have a total capacity of about 4,300,000 barrels.
3. Other important areas
The towns of Sundsvall, Kiruna, Lulea, and Boden are important ports, major transportation nodes, or mining centers in central and northern Sweden, and Kalmar is an important commercial center and port on the Baltic Sea coast of southern Sweden.
Sundsvall (population about 65,000) is a center for the large lumber and pulp industry in central Sweden. It is also a transportation center and major port and contains plants producing mechanical and electrical equipment and chemicals. Important hydroelectrical plants are just north of the town, mainly on the Ludalsalven and Angermanalvan, and a permanently surfaced airfield is nearby. Refined petroleum products storage facilities have a capacity of about 792,000 barrels.
Kiruna (population about 30,500) is an important mining center in northern Sweden, situated near the largest deposit of high-grade iron ore in Europe. The terminal of the highway from the Gulf of Bothnia, Kiruna's permanently surfaced airfield is the northernmost civil field in Sweden.
FIGURE 7. Stockholm-Goteborg Strategic Area (C) (map)
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