Hemavan
Hemavan is a secluded ski resort in Swedish Västerbotten. It is the southern trailhead for the Kungsleden trail. The nature reserve of the Vindelfjällen fell area is close.
- Type: Village with 216 residents
- Description: urban area in Storuman Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Bierke”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hemavan Church.
Hemavan
- Categories: urban area in Sweden, minor locality in Sweden, and locality
- Location: Storuman Municipality, Västerbotten County, Norrland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.8153° or 65° 48′ 55″ north
Longitude
15.0853° or 15° 5′ 7″ east
Population
216
Elevation
493 metres (1,617 feet)
IATA airport code
HMV
United Nations Location Code
SE HMV
Open location code
9FQQR38P+44
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Hemavan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Hemavan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Hemavan”
- Bulgarian: “Хемаван”
- Cebuano: “Hemavan”
- Chinese: “Hemavan/Bierke”
- Danish: “Hemavan”
- Dutch: “Hemavan”
- Finnish: “Hemavan/Bierke”
- French: “Hemavan”
- Galician: “Hemavan”
- German: “Hemavan”
- Irish: “Hemavan”
- Italian: “Hemavan”
- Japanese: “ヘーマーバン”
- Ladin: “Hemavan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hemavan/Bierke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hemavan”
- Norwegian: “Hemavan”
- Polish: “Hemavan/Bierke”
- Polish: “Hemavan”
- Portuguese: “Hemavan”
- Scots: “Hemavan”
- Spanish: “Hemavan”
- Swedish: “Hemavan/Bierke”
- Swedish: “Hemavan”
- Urdu: “ہیماوان”
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