Skelleftea

Skelleftea is a city and the seat of Skellefteå Municipality in Vasterbotten County, Sweden, with 32,775 inhabitants in 2010. The municipality had about 72,000 population at the stop of 2013. The city is a historically industrial town with mining being a massive industry, in particular for gold – subsequently the nickname "Gold Town". Politically it is a Social Democratic stronghold. The city is a well-known ice hockey metropolis, with its major team Skellefteå AIK playing within the Swedish pinnacle department: the SHL, which they have received on numerous occasions. The town changed into included in 1845 and grew to its contemporary population size basically within the Fifties and Sixties, developing only slowly due to the fact that.

It is the second one largest city in Västerbotten after Umeå and is located more or less midway among it and Lulea. The Skellefte River passes via the metropolis and it is placed around 15 kilometres 9.3 mi from the Bothnian Bay open sea. Skellefteå is served by Skellefteå Airport, domestically referred to as Falmark because of the village nearby, also round 15 kilometres 9.Three mi from the city centre to the south.