Umeå (Swedish pronunciation: [ʉːmе.оː] ( listen); Finnish: Uumaja, Northern Sami: Ubmi) is a university city in Västerbotten, Sweden.
Umeå is the biggest city in Norrland, the capital of Västerbotten County and the seat of Umeå Municipality. The city proper has 75,645 inhabitants (2005) out of a municipal total of 112,728 (2008).
Umeå is a center of education, technical and medical research in Sweden, with two universities and over 30,000 studen...
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Umeå (Swedish pronunciation: [ʉːmе.оː] ( listen); Finnish: Uumaja, Northern Sami: Ubmi) is a university city in Västerbotten, Sweden.
Umeå is the biggest city in Norrland, the capital of Västerbotten County and the seat of Umeå Municipality. The city proper has 75,645 inhabitants (2005) out of a municipal total of 112,728 (2008).
Umeå is a center of education, technical and medical research in Sweden, with two universities and over 30,000 students. The city is elected European Capital of Culture for 2014.
Umeå has been expanding for several decades and is one of Sweden's fastest growing cities. Growth sped up in 1965, the same year that the university was established. In the last 30 years, housing in Umeå has doubled and this rate of growth continues. As of 2008, 700 to 800 new apartments are constructed each year.
The first mention of Umeå is in the 14th century. The northern parts of Sweden, including Umeå, were largely unsettled at that time, but Umeå did form a parish with a...
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