| Storuman Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Storumans kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Westrobothnia County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Storuman |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Note: | Area as of . |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Province |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Lapland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 2421 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.storuman.se |
Storuman Municipality (; Southern Sami: Luspie tjïelte; Lusspie kommuvnna) is a municipality in Westrobothnia County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Storuman.
The parish Stensele was created as late as 1822. It was, together with the parish Tärna, made into a municipality in 1863. In 1903 Tärna was detached to form a municipality of its own. The local government reform of 1971 saw the reunification of Stensele and Tärnaby municipalities, thus forming Storuman Municipality with the name taken from its largest town.
Tärnaby, a small village in the municipality, has fostered the internationally famous alpine skiers Ingemar Stenmark, Stig Strand and Anja Pärson.
With an area of, the municipality has Sweden's ninth largest area, but is sparsely populated with a population density of less than 1 inhabitant per km2.
There are four localities (or urban areas) in Storuman Municipality:[1]
| Locality | Population | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Storuman | 2,255 | |
| 2 | 578 | ||
| 3 | 533 | ||
| 4 | 216 |
The municipal seat in bold
This is a demographic table based on Storuman Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[2]
In total there were 5,801 residents, including 4,515 Swedish citizens of voting age.[2] 51.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
| Location | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | |||||||
| Gunnarn | 560 | 434 | 46.6 | 52.6 | 82 | 93 | 7 | 21,919 | 26 | ||||||||
| Luspen | 1,941 | 1,427 | 53.3 | 45.8 | 81 | 85 | 15 | 22,257 | 30 | ||||||||
| Slussfors | 460 | 394 | 55.1 | 44.9 | 85 | 91 | 9 | 19,591 | 31 | ||||||||
| Tärnaby-Hemavan | 1,519 | 1,238 | 52.1 | 47.2 | 82 | 91 | 9 | 23,698 | 34 | ||||||||
| Vallnäs | 1,321 | 1,022 | 48.8 | 50.2 | 84 | 92 | 8 | 24,379 | 31 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
Storuman Municipality has two major roads, E12 and E45, crossing in Storuman. An international tourist route Blue Highway (Norway - Sweden - Finland - Russia) goes through Storuman.
There are two railways, Inlandsbanan and the Storuman-Hällnäs Line in Storuman. The former is used for tourist trains in the summer, and both for freight trains.
The nearest airport for the eastern part of Storuman Municipality is Vilhelmina Airport. For the western part, Hemavan Airport is situated near the village centre of Hemavan.
The following cities are twinned with Storuman:[3]
