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Degerfors (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈdêːɡɛrˌfɔʂ]) is a locality and the seat of Degerfors Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden, with 7,160 inhabitants in 2010. Degerfors has traditionally been an industrial community closely connected to the large ironworks. The settlement (originally called Johannelund) grew up around this industry and got the status of a municipalsamhälle (a type of borough within a municipality) in 1912. Today it acts as seat of the larger Degerfors Municipality. Degerfors is famous for its successful football team Degerfors IF and for hosting the site of Sveafallen, a geological landscape of small canyons and giant's kettles. There is a narrow-gauge railway connecting it with Bredsjö, the Bredsjö–Degerfors Järnväg.