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City of Umeå
The city of Umeå, Northern Sweden

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Umeå Turistbyrå

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Umeå Turistbyrå

28,000 students can’t be wrong. The university town of Umeå is the hub for outdoor activities in northern Sweden.

Welcome to the university town of Umeå, the hub for outdoor activities in northern Sweden.

Umeå is a university town with many good eateries, clubs and bars. The cultural calendar includes the Umeå jazz, film and chamber music festivals and events at Norrlands Opera. Umeå shines for its range of outdoor activities. Year-round you can go trekking on Iceland ponies, and in wintertime you can go dog-sledding through the pristine forests and plains, or go cross-country skiing; there are ski tracks that criss-cross the town. The rest of the year you can go on seal and beaver spotting trips, or enjoy canoeing, kayaking, mountaineering, fishing and hiking trips. And much more.

There are regular daily flights from Stockholm to Umeå and the flight takes just one hour.

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Northern Sweden

Northern Sweden is a vast landscape of towering alpine peaks and endless vistas of pine forest, Polar plains, meadows and glaciers. Its eastern edge is fringed by a rolling coastline, peppered by islands and skerries. No description of Northern Sweden is complete without mentioning Swedish Lapland - Europe’s last remaining wilderness.

Lovers of the outdoors life will love northern Sweden’s legendary national parks; Abisko and Sarek being two outstanding examples. Northern Sweden is also the ancestral home of the Sami, the indigenous people of the region, whose unique traditions and culture thankfully thrive today. Bear, elk, the wolverine, the golden eagle and the rare Arctic Fox have their home here in Northern Sweden. As if these natural riches were not enough, this the land of the Midnight Sun and the staggeringly beautiful Northern Lights,

We could go on – and on.

Lookout from Skierffe, Rapadalen in Swedish Lapland

Lapland, Sweden

In the Lapland region in the far north of Sweden, you can find the most vast, dramatic and spectacular untamed wilderness areas that Europe has to offer.

Nature's Best arrangement Pathfinder Lapland

Sami people - The native Scandinavians

The Sami people live in the far north of the Scandinavian peninsula. They are Europe´s only indigenous people, and one of the smallest in terms of population, numbering only around 75,000 - of which 20,000 live in Sweden.

Hiking in Katterjåkk, Swedish Lapland

Hiking & Trekking - Dreaming of Sweden

Sweden is a ‘dream landscape’ for hiking and trekking, from the untamed wilderness of Sarek National Park in the far north, to the enchanted forest and lakes of the south.

Åre in Jämtland

Northern Europe´s leading alpine sport resort

Åre in Sweden is Northern Europe´s largest and most advanced and diverse alpine sport resort.

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