Ostersund

Ostersund is an city location in Jamtland in the middle of Sweden. It is the seat of Ostersund Municipality and the capital of Jämtland County. Ostersund is located on the seashores of Sweden's 5th biggest lake, Storsjön, contrary the island Frösön, and is the handiest metropolis in Jämtland. Östersund is the vicinity's cultural and inexpensive centre and with the aid of way of life a town of alternate and commerce. Östersund had one of the maximum sizeable garrisons in Sweden previous to its closure in the early 21st century.

The town is the Mid Sweden University's biggest campus web page with about 7,000 college students. With a complete population of 50,960 Ostersund is the 22 second maximum populous town in Sweden, the 46th most populous city in Scandinavia, and by a long way the biggest inland town in Northern Sweden. Lake Storsjon's shores have lengthy been inhabited. Though the area in which Ostersund is located changed into for a totally long time Froson's link to the east mainland. Froson, the island of the Norse god Freyr, changed into at the beginning the centre of the area and it become here the most effective inland Scandinavian hill fort, Mjalleborgen, become built around 300 AD.