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What can you do in Västerbotten and what can you see and experience? We haven't really written about Västerbotten but we stopped in Umeå and Skellefteå when we did a Sweden road trip many years ago. We wish we could travel and write about Västerbotten today but we can't, and we don't write from the office like many others do. Check out our different facts about Västerbotten!

Things to see and do in Västerbotten

Västerbotten is a landscape in Norrland in north-eastern Sweden. It is bordered in the east by the Gulf of Bothnia and the Kvarken, in the south by the Ångermanland and to the west and north-west to Lapland, and to the north to Norrbotten. Kvarken is the rising Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland. Västerbotten has one eighth of Sweden's surface area and is the second largest county in Sweden.

Göra i Västerbotten

First Camp in Umeå - fresh camping and grilled fish

Here is a greeting from First Camp in Umeå. Now we have started the journey south, after our Norrland trip. The journey is far from over, yet it always feels a little hard to leave. back

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Västerbotten's coat of arms on the 17th century Suecia work

What to see and do in Västerbotten - facts

  • Part of the country: Norrland
  • County: County of Västerbotten
  • Pin: Luleå Diocese
  • City of residence: Umeå
  • Biggest lake: The village swamp
  • Largest island: Obbola Island?
  • Highest point: Åmliden - 551 metres above sea level.
  • Surface: 15 538 km 2
  • Population: 226 518 (2019)
  • Titular: Counties
  • Element: Gold
  • Insect: Greater black beetle 
  • Landscape fish: River lamprey
  • Landscape moss: rusty white moss
  • Landscape stone: Copper pyrite ore
  • Landscape singing: None
  • Landscape flower: King Karl's spria, King's spira
  • Landscape animals: Curlew
  • Landscape mushrooms: Wrinkled Tufted Skipper
  • Landscape apples: Transparent white
  • Constellation: Pegasus
  • Star: Markab
  • Weapons: With a blue field and a silver running reindeer with horns and hooves in red, and with six-pointed stars sprinkled throughout the image in gold.
  • National Park: None
  • Nature reserve: Arasjö nature reserve, Bjuröklubb coastal reserve, Torsmyran, Alsberget, Mårdseleforsen.
  • Cultural reserve: Rörträsk is a village in Rörsjö municipality and Sven Benjaminsson from Böle started the new settlement on 23 September 1793 at Lake Rörträsk. In Rörträsk there is Västerbotten's first cultural reserve... Rörträsk silängar. 
  • Largest centres: Skellefteå, Umeå, Lycksele Holmsund
  • Largest watercourse: River Umeälven
  • Landscape law: Älgwallenbergare with Västerbotten potato cake and pickled chanterelles, Västerbotten pie, Paltmuffins with luxurious accompaniments. More about Swedish food.
  • Main sights: Holm Island
  • The Wilderness Road, a 500-kilometre-long route.
  • Guitars the museum
  • Västerbotten museum
  • Lycksele Zoo
  • Ruttjebäcken
  • Nordanå Park
  • Lögdeälvsleden and the Dragon Ridge
  • The farm easel
  • Bully Club
  • picture museum.
  • Famous people: Peter Haber is an actor and is known as Martin Beck and Sune's father Rudolf from Skelleftehamn, the singer, comedian and impersonator Maria Möller from Hednäs outside Fällfors. Victoria Silvstedt from Skelleftehamn, Marika Lindström from Skellefteå, Curt "Curre" Lindmark with the first historic Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1994 from Byske, Ann-Kristin Hedmark, Stieg Larsson and Tommy Körberg.
  • Unnecessary knowledge: Västerbottenosten comes from here and the maid Eleonora Lindström took over as dairymaid in 1872 and sometime soon afterwards Västerbottensosten was born. A popular truth is that it was the farmhand who delivered milk to the farm that kept Eleonora busy and that Västerbottensost is the result of a passionate encounter in the dairy.
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