Lycksele Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Västerbotten County
- Seat
- Lycksele
- Total
- 5,888.93 km (2,273.73 sq mi)
- Land
- 5,518.49 km (2,130.70 sq mi)
- Water
- 370.44 km (143.03 sq mi)
- Density
- 2.1990/km (5.6953/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Lapland
- Website
- www.lycksele.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Part of
- Lapland
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Västerbotten County
- Capital
- Lycksele
- Official language
- Sámi
- Population
- 12159
- Area
- 370.72
- Shares border with
- Vilhelmina Municipality
- Employees
- 1525
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.lycksele.se
- Image
- 16001000507004-Lycksele-Riksantikvarieämbetet.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lycksele Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Lycksele Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Ähtäri
- catchphrase
- Staden i Lappland
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- hashtag
- lyckselekommun
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.lysekil.se/kommun-och-politik/dialog-fragor-och-synpunkter/medborgarforslag.html
- phone number
- +46-950-16600
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/lycksele_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Lycksele Municipality (Swedish: Lycksele kommun; Southern Sami: Liksjoe tjïelte; Ume Sami: Liksjuon kommuvdna) is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Lycksele and the municipality is located in the southern parts of Swedish Lapland.
The municipality traces its history to Lycksele parish, which was in effect during the 19th century with very similar borders and size (5,000-5,500 km). The whole rural municipality Lycksele became a market town (köping) in 1929 and city in 1946. In 1971 it was amalgamated with Örträsk Municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lycksele Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.