Umeå

Also known as Umea

Umeå ( , ; Finnish and ; ) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County.

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Umeå is a city located in northeastern Sweden that serves as the administrative center for both Umeå Municipality and Västerbotten County. As a regional capital, it plays an important role in governing and representing its surrounding area.

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Umeå
Settlement.native_name: Ubmeje
Settlement.image_skyline: Umeå collage.png
Settlement.image_size: 300px
Settlement.nicknames: UmeBjörkarnas Stad (Town of Birches)
Settlement.pushpin_map: Sweden Västerbotten#Sweden
Settlement.pushpin_relief: 1
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Province
Settlement.subdivision_type3: County
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Västerbotten County
Settlement.subdivision_name4: Umeå
Settlement.established_title3: Charter
Settlement.established_date3: 17th Century
Settlement.area_urban_km2: 31.8
Settlement.elevation_m: 12
Settlement.population_total: 130224

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: chef-lieu
Official name: Ubmeje
Award: European Capital of Culture
Country: Sweden
Population: 94243
Area: 3632
Elevation: 12
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Capital of: Umeå Municipality
Official website: www.umea.se
Image: Umeå collage.png
Dialing code: 090

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category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Umeå
Commons category: Umeå
topic's main category: Category:Umeå
inception: 1622-01-01
Commons gallery: Umeå
category for people born here: Category:Births in Umeå
category of associated people: Category:People from Umeå
time of earliest written record: 1314-00-00
postal code: 90X XX
different from: Haumea
P12749: Pierre Desproges
native label: Umeå
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
Geography
Residential areas and localities
Central
West
South
Southeast
North/Northeast
Climate
Demography
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Culture
Sports
Education and research
Economy
Notable people
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Umeå ( , ; Finnish and ; ) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County.

Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest locality in Norrland and the thirteenth largest in Sweden, with a wider municipal population of 132,235 inhabitants in the beginning of 2023. When Umeå University was established in 1965, growth accelerated, and the amount of housing has doubled in 30 years from 1980 to 2010. , Umeå was gaining around 1,000 inhabitants per year and the municipality plans for having 200,000 inhabitants by 2050. The projection of municipality size in 2050 has, however, been questioned as an overestimation in an independent study.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Umeå” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.