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Lund is located in British Columbia, Canada, at approximate coordinates 49.9817°, -124.7591°.

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Lund

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Elevation30 m

Land area2760 km²

Coordinates49.98°, -124.76°

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City facts

Elevation

30 m

Area

2760 km²

Official website

www.lund.se

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Overview

Lund is a village located in British Columbia, Canada. Lund maps to 49.982°, -124.759° — squarely within the temperate belt. Up-to-date population figures for this locality are not available in the open datasets we monitor. Climatically, locations at this latitude tend to experience four distinct seasons with warm summers and cold winters. The location receives about 1,191 kWh/m² of solar irradiance per year and sunshine for roughly 47% of daylight hours. Read on for charts and tables covering demographics, climate, hazards, schools, wildlife and other open-data indicators for Lund.

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History & geography

History

Along with Sigtuna, Lund is the oldest city in present-day Sweden. Lund's origins are unclear. Until the 1980s, the city was thought to have been founded around 1020 by either Sweyn I Forkbeard or his son Canute the Great of Denmark. The area was then part of the kingdom of Denmark. However, recent archaeological discoveries suggest that the first settlement dated to , possibly the relocation of settlers at Uppåkra. The Uppåkra settlement dates back to the first century B.C. and its remains are at the present site of the village of Uppåkra. King Sweyn I Forkbeard moved Lund to its present location, a distance of some . The new location of Lund, on a hill and across a ford, gave the new site considerable defensive advantages in comparison with Uppåkra, situated on the highest point of a large plain. The organisation of the Danish church begun under the rule of Canute the Great. Lund became the see of one of seven dioceses in 1048. In 1104 it became an archbishopric. Lund's ecclesiastical province comprised Scandinavia and even Garðar on Greenland. Saint Mary Minor church was founded c. 1060. This was a post church with palisade walls, also called Sancta Maria, and was discovered in 1911 on a site just south of the great square, Stortorget. That church had been built in the mid 11th century; 1060 is postulated through dendrochronology. The diocese of nearby Dalby was absorbed in 1066. Lund Cathedral was similarly founded in or shortly after 1103. In 1152, the Norwegian archdiocese of Nidaros was founded as a separate province of the church, independent of Lund. In 1164 Sweden also acquired an archbishop of its own, although he was nominally subordinate to the archbishop of Lund. The diocese of Lund is today a diocese in the Church of Sweden. Lund Cathedral School…

Geography

Lund is located in Sweden's largest agricultural district, in the south-west of Scania, less than from the sandy shore of the Öresund Strait. Its location on the south-facing slope of the Romeleåsen horst leads to the city rising from the low-lying Höje River in the south to above mean sea level in the north. From the top of the Sankt Hans Hill it is possible to see Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The nearest large Swedish city, Malmö, is about to the south-west. Other Swedish cities are more distant: Gothenburg is away, the capital Stockholm is distant, and Umeå lies to the north. The central part of Lund largely retains its medieval street layout. A few buildings from the Middle Ages remain, including Lund Cathedral, Liberiet, St. Peter's Priory, the restaurant Stäket and Krognoshuset. Many of today's buildings in the centre were constructed in the late 1800s, including Katedralskolan, the Grand Hotel and the main building and library of Lund University. Lund contains four main city squares connected by a number of roads and passages that form the main city centre, which includes numerous restaurants, shops and bars. Clemenstorget is a tree-covered city square located alongside the railway and the station; it hosts a small market and is the central terminus of the city's tramway. Bantorget is a green park square close to the central station, and Lund's Grand Hotel is located there. The city hall is located on the main city square, Stortorget, which often features concerts and various cultural and political events. Mårtenstorget hosts the Lund Market Hall; it has many restaurants, food trucks and bars around it and serves as a market square during the daytime. In earlier times, the square was used as a cattle market and was known as "Oxtorget". Smaller…

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