Umeå Municipality

Umeå Municipality (Swedish: Umeå kommun, Northern Sami: Ubmi gielda) is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is Umeå, which is also the county seat of Västerbotten County.

Umeå Municipality

Umeå kommun
Municipality
Umeå City Hall
Coat of arms
CountrySweden
CountyVästerbotten County
SeatUmeå
Area
 • Total5,214.16 km2 (2,013.20 sq mi)
 • Land2,316.61 km2 (894.45 sq mi)
 • Water2,897.55 km2 (1,118.75 sq mi)
 Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population
 (31 December 2019)[2]
 • Total128,901
 • Density25/km2 (64/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeSE
ProvinceVästerbotten and Ångermanland
Municipal code2480
Websitewww.umea.se/umeakommun
Umeå Town Hall.

Administration

The municipality is an administrative entity defined by geographical borders, consisting of Umeå and a large area around it. The present municipality consists of many former local government units joined together in a series of municipal reforms carried out between 1952 and 1974.

A 65-member municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige) is elected by proportional representation for a four-year term. The assembly appoints the 9-member executive committee (kommunstyrelsen) and the 7 governing commissioners. The executive committee and the commissioners are headed by the chairman (kommunstyrelsens ordförande), since 1996 Social Democrat Lennart Holmlund (b. 1946). Since the 2010 municipal election the municipality is headed by a Social Democratic-Left Party coalition a single seat short of absolute majority. Of the eight parties represented in the Riksdag since 2010, all but the Sweden Democrats are found in the assembly, as well as the breakaway Socialist Justice Party headed by former Social Democrat Jan Hägglund (holding its only seat), renamed the Workers' Party in 2011.

Localities

There are 20 localities (or urban areas) in Umeå Municipality:[3]

#LocalityPopulation
1Umeå75,645
2Holmsund5,482
3Sävar2,672
4Hörnefors2,573
5Röbäck2,300
6Obbola2,175
7Ersmark1,486
8Täfteå1,029
9Tomtebo633
10Innertavle549
11Stöcke477
12Hissjön447
13Sörfors397
14Bullmark343
15Flurkmark302
16Tavelsjö247
17Sörmjöle231
18Västibyn219
19Botsmark209
20Stöcksjö205

The municipal seat in bold

Other villages

International relations
Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

Twin towns — Sister cities
Vänortsparken in Umeå.

Umeå Municipality is twinned with:

In Twin Towns' Park (Vänortsparken) is the artwork Tellus: it is a map of the world, with each sister city's location. Each sister city also has a designated themed area in the park.[4]

See also
  • Blue Highway, tourist route (Norway - Sweden - Finland - Russia)

References
  1. "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. "Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 31 december 2019" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 20, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  3. Statistics Sweden as of December 31, 2005
  4. Facts about Vänortsparken (Swedish) Archived 2014-05-03 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 27 July 2014

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