Sorsele Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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 in Västerbotten County

Västerbotten County

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 in northern Sweden

Sweden

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. Its seat

Administrative centre

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 is located in Sorsele

Sorsele

Sorsele is a locality and the seat of Sorsele Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden with 1,288 inhabitants in 2005. Sorsele is also the nearest town to the ski resort Nalovardo.- References :...

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Sorsele Municipality covers an area of 8,012 km². It is the eleventh largest municipality by size, but has the second smallest population.

The municipality has not been affected by the two local government reforms of the 20th century, but has had its large size since the municipal system was implemented in 1863.

The name appears to stem from the Sami

Sami languages

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 word sourge, which means branch, and sel, which is of Swedish origin and refers to a kind of stream

Stream

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. This refers to the protected Vindel River

Vindel River

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 (Swedish: Vindelälven), which flows through the town and municipality of Sorsele.

Geography wise, around half of the municipal area is part of the Vindelfjällen nature reserve

Nature reserve

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Localities

There is only one locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 (or urban area) in Sorsele Municipality:

#	Locality	Population
1	Sorsele Sorsele Sorsele is a locality and the seat of Sorsele Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden with 1,288 inhabitants in 2005. Sorsele is also the nearest town to the ski resort Nalovardo.- References :...	1,288

External links

• Sorsele Municipality - Official site