a province of Sweden, so called from a river of the same name, on which it lies, near Norway. It is divided into six districts, and is about 175 miles in length and 100 in breadth. It contained 124,806 inhabitants in 1811. It is full of mountains, which abound in mines of copper and iron, some of which are of a prodigious depth. Idra is the capital. The inhabitants are rough, robust, and warlike: and all the great revolutions in Sweden had their rise in this province.