Norrland
Västerbotten County
Skellefteå Municipality

Skellefteå

Skellefteå, called Skellefte by locals, is a town in , , at the Baltic Sea, with around 33,000 inhabitants. Skellefteå municipality, Skellefteå kommun, has 72,000 inhabitants in total.
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  • Type: Town with 32,800 residents
  • Description: urban area in Skellefteå Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Skellefte” and “Skelleftea”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Skellefteå Kraft Arena and Bonnstan.

Sports venue
Photo: Petey21, Public domain.
is an indoor sporting arena located in Skellefteå, . The capacity of the arena is 5,801 and it was built in 1966. and inaugurated on 6 January 1967.

Photo: Jlundqvi, CC BY 3.0.

Hospital
Photo: Bandlina, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hospital.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Morö Backe.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in northern in the northeastern part of the district of Skellefteå. The town is located mostly in the Skellefteå River on the eastern slope of Vitberget, situated cliff-top.

Skellefteå

Latitude
64.752° or 64° 45′ 7″ north
Longitude
20.9593° or 20° 57′ 34″ east
Population
32,800
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
IATA airport code
SFT
United Nations Location Code
SE SFT
Open location code
9GP2QX25+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 560126199
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
602913
Wiki­data ID
Q54344
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Skellefteå” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Skellefteå”
  • Arabic: “سكيلفتيا”
  • Aragonese: “Skellefteå”
  • Armenian: “Շելեֆտե”
  • Armenian: “Սկելլեֆտեա”
  • Basque: “Skellefte”
  • Basque: “Skelleftea”
  • Basque: “Skellefteå”
  • Belarusian: “Шэлефтэа”
  • Belarusian: “Шэлефтэо”
  • Bulgarian: “Шелефтео”
  • Catalan: “Skellefteå”
  • Cebuano: “Skellefteå (kapital sa munisipyo sa Suwesya)”
  • Cebuano: “Skellefteå”
  • Chinese: “Skellefteå”
  • Chinese: “謝萊夫特奧”
  • Croatian: “Skellefteå”
  • Czech: “Skellefteå”
  • Danish: “Skellefteå”
  • Dutch: “Skelleftea”
  • Dutch: “Skellefteå”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سكيليفتييا”
  • Esperanto: “Skellefteå”
  • Estonian: “Skellefteå”
  • Faroese: “Skellefteå”
  • Finnish: “Heletti”
  • Finnish: “Skellefteå”
  • French: “Skellefteå”
  • Galician: “Skellefteå”
  • Georgian: “შელეფტეო”
  • German: “Skellefteå”
  • Hebrew: “סקלפטה”
  • Hungarian: “Skellefteå”
  • Icelandic: “Skellefteå”
  • Indonesian: “Skellefteå”
  • Irish: “Skellefteå”
  • Italian: “Skellefteå”
  • Japanese: “シェレフテオ”
  • Kazakh: “Шеллефтео”
  • Korean: “셸레프테오”
  • Kurdish: “Skellefteå”
  • Ladin: “Skellefteå”
  • Latvian: “Šellefteo”
  • Lithuanian: “Šeleftėjas”
  • Lithuanian: “Šelefteo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Skellefteå”
  • Minangkabau: “Skellefteå”
  • Northern Frisian: “Skellefteå”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skellefteå”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skellefteå”
  • Norwegian: “Skellefteå”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Skellefteå”
  • Ossetian: “Шеллефтео”
  • Persian: “شلفتئو”
  • Persian: “کخلفتئا”
  • Polish: “Skellefteå”
  • Portuguese: “Skellefteå”
  • Romanian: “Skellefteå”
  • Russian: “Скеллефтеа”
  • Russian: “Шеллефтео”
  • Serbian: “Шелефтео”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skellefteå”
  • Silesian: “Skellefteå”
  • Slovenian: “Skellefteå”
  • Southern Sami: “Skillehte”
  • Southern Sami: “Syöldete”
  • Spanish: “Skellefteå”
  • Swahili: “Skellefteå”
  • Swedish: “Skellefte”
  • Swedish: “Skellefteå”
  • Thai: “เคว็ลเล็ฟติยอ”
  • Thai: “เชลเลฟเตโอ”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Heletti”
  • Turkish: “Skellefteå”
  • Ukrainian: “Шеллефтео”
  • Ume Sami: “Syöldate”
  • Vietnamese: “Skellefteå”
  • Volapük: “Skellefteå”
  • Western Frisian: “Skellefteå”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Skellefteå”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.