Norrland
Västerbotten County
Umeå Municipality

Umeå

Umeå, called Ume by locals, is a city near the mouth of the Ume River. It is the capital of in northern , and with about 110,000 citizens it is the largest city in .
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  • Type: City with 89,600 residents
  • Description: urban area in Umeå Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Umea”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Västerbottens Museum and Bildmuseet.

Museum
Photo: MikaelLindmark, CC BY-SA 3.0.
in the Gammlia area of Umeå, Sweden is a county museum with responsibility for the cultural history of . The museum consists of the Gammlia open-air museum, a ski exhibition, an exhibition of Fishing and Maritime, the popular movement archive of Västerbotten County and a number of Sami camps.

Museum
Photo: Fredriklarssonphotography, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a contemporary art museum in Umeå, northern .

Museum
Photo: MikaelLindmark, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a located in downtown Umeå, Sweden. The museum is located in a brick building that previously hosted the school Vasaskolan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Röbäck and Ålidhöjd.

Village
is a locality situated in , , with 2,230 inhabitants in 2010.

Suburb
Photo: Xanor, CC0.
is a residential area in Umeå, .

Suburb
Photo: MikaelLindmark, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a residential area in Umeå, .

Umeå

Latitude
63.8257° or 63° 49′ 32″ north
Longitude
20.2631° or 20° 15′ 47″ east
Population
89,600
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
UME
United Nations Location Code
SE UME
Open location code
9GM2R7G7+76
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27432369
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
602150
Wiki­data ID
Q25579
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Umeå” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Umeå”
  • Albanian: “Umeå”
  • Arabic: “أوميو”
  • Arabic: “اوميو”
  • Aragonese: “Umeå”
  • Armenian: “Ումեո”
  • Asturian: “Umeå”
  • Basque: “Umeå”
  • Belarusian: “Умеа”
  • Bengali: “উমিও”
  • Bosnian: “Umeå”
  • Breton: “Umeå”
  • Bulgarian: “Умео”
  • Catalan: “Umea”
  • Catalan: “Umeå”
  • Cebuano: “Umeå”
  • Chechen: “Умео”
  • Chinese: “Umeå”
  • Chinese: “乌默奥”
  • Chinese: “于默奥”
  • Chinese: “于默奧”
  • Cornish: “Umeå”
  • Croatian: “Umeå”
  • Czech: “Umeå”
  • Danish: “Umeå”
  • Dutch: “Umeå”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوميو”
  • Esperanto: “Umea”
  • Esperanto: “Umeå”
  • Estonian: “Ubmi”
  • Estonian: “Umea”
  • Estonian: “Umeå”
  • Estonian: “Uumaja”
  • Faroese: “Umeå”
  • Fijian: “Umeå”
  • Finnish: “Umeå”
  • Finnish: “Uumaja”
  • French: “Umea”
  • French: “Umeå”
  • Galician: “Umeå”
  • Georgian: “უმეო”
  • German: “Umea”
  • German: “Umeå”
  • Greek: “Ουμεό”
  • Greek: “Ούμεο”
  • Gujarati: “ઉમેયા”
  • Hebrew: “אומאו”
  • Hindi: “ऊमेओ”
  • Hungarian: “Umea”
  • Hungarian: “Umeå”
  • Icelandic: “Umeå”
  • Indonesian: “Umea”
  • Indonesian: “Umeå”
  • Indonesian: “Umeaa”
  • Interlingue: “Umeå”
  • Irish: “Umeå”
  • Italian: “Umea”
  • Italian: “Umeå”
  • Italian: “Umeaa”
  • Japanese: “ウーメオ”
  • Japanese: “ウメオ”
  • Japanese: “ウメオ市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Umeå”
  • Kannada: “ಉಮೆಯ”
  • Kirghiz: “Үмео”
  • Korean: “우메오”
  • Kurdish: “Umeå”
  • Ladin: “Umeå”
  • Latin: “Uma”
  • Latvian: “Umeå”
  • Latvian: “Umeo”
  • Latvian: “Ūmeo”
  • Lithuanian: “Umėjas”
  • Lithuanian: “Umeo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Umeå”
  • Macedonian: “Умео”
  • Malay: “Umea”
  • Malay: “Umeå”
  • Maori: “Umeå”
  • Maori: “Umio”
  • Marathi: “उमिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Umeå”
  • Minangkabau: “Umeå”
  • Moksha: “Умэа”
  • Mongolian: “Умео”
  • Northern Frisian: “Umeå”
  • Northern Sami: “Ubmi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Umeå”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Umeå”
  • Norwegian: “Umeå”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Umeå”
  • Ossetian: “Умео”
  • Panjabi: “ਊਮਿਓ”
  • Persian: “اومئا”
  • Persian: “اومئو”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Umeå”
  • Polish: “Umea”
  • Polish: “Umeå”
  • Portuguese: “Umea”
  • Portuguese: “Umeå”
  • Romanian: “Umea”
  • Romanian: “Umeå”
  • Russian: “Умео”
  • Scots: “Umeå”
  • Serbian: “Umeå”
  • Serbian: “Умео”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Umeå”
  • Shona: “Umeå”
  • Silesian: “Umeå”
  • Sinhala: “උමියා”
  • Slovak: “Umea”
  • Slovak: “Umeå”
  • Slovenian: “Umeå”
  • Southern Sami: “Upmeje”
  • Spanish: “Umea”
  • Spanish: “Umeå”
  • Swahili: “Umeå”
  • Swedish: “Umeå”
  • Tajik: “Умео”
  • Tamil: “உமியா”
  • Tatar: “Умео”
  • Telugu: “యూమ్యో”
  • Thai: “อือมิยอ”
  • Thai: “อูเมโอ”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Uumaja”
  • Turkish: “Umea”
  • Turkish: “Umeå”
  • Turkish: “Uumaja”
  • Ukrainian: “Умео”
  • Ume Sami: “Ubmeje”
  • Urdu: “اومیو”
  • Veps: “Umeo”
  • Vietnamese: “Umea”
  • Vietnamese: “Umeå”
  • Volapük: “Umeå”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Umeå”
  • Welsh: “Umeå”
  • Western Frisian: “Umeå”
  • Western Panjabi: “امیہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “اومیو”
  • Wu Chinese: “于默奥”
  • Yue Chinese: “于默奧”
  • “Umeå”

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