Edefors
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Edefors is a parish of Boden Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. The parish was created when, in 1891, the parish of Överluleå was split into two parts. The northern part was named Edefors because of the rapids in the Lule river. The population is 1711 (year 2000); in the mid-1950s the population was about 4000, and it was a municipality of its own. The main villages are Harads, 614 inhabitants and Bodträskfors, 236 inhabitants and Svartlå with about 200 inh.
The author Eyvind Johnson once lived in the small village of Näsberg, in the northeastern part of the parish (winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature).
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