Umeå Municipality (, ) is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is Umeå, which is also the county seat of Västerbotten County.
Administration
The municipality is an administrative entity defined by geographical borders, consisting of Umeå and a large area around it. The present municipality consists of many former local government units joined together in a series of municipal reforms carried out between 1952 and 1974.
A 65-member municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige) is elected by proportional representation for a four-year term. The assembly appoints the 9-member executive committee (kommunstyrelsen) and the 7 governing commissioners. The executive committee and the commissioners are headed by the chairman (kommunstyrelsens ordförande), since 1996 Social Democrat Lennart Holmlund (b. 1946). Since the 2010 municipal election the municipality is headed by a Social Democratic-Left Party coalition a single seat short of absolute majority. Of the eight parties represented in the Riksdag since 2010, all but the Sweden Democrats are found in the assembly, as well as the breakaway Socialist Justice Party headed by former Social Democrat Jan Hägglund (holding its only seat), renamed the Workers' Party in 2011.
Localities
There are 20 localities (or urban areas) in Umeå Municipality:
The municipal seat in bold
Other villages: Brännland Gravmark Gunnismark
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Umeå Municipality is twinned with: Saskatoon, Canada Qufu, People's Republic of China Helsingør Municipality, Denmark Vaasa, Finland Würzburg, Germany Guanajuato, Mexico Harstad, Norway Petrozavodsk, Russia Osmangazi (Bursa), Turkey Nilufer (Bursa), Turkey
In Twin Towns' Park (Vänortsparken) is the artwork Tellus: it is a map of the world, with each sister city's location. Each sister city also has a designated themed area in the park.
See also
Blue Highway, tourist route (Norway - Sweden - Finland - Russia)