Welcome to Sollefteå Muncipality

Sollefteå is a powerful community at the heart of the Ådalen region where the river valleys are surrounded by dramatic steep silty riverbanks, nipa* in Swedish.

The population of the entire municipality is 20000, whom 9000 live in the city of Sollefteå. Junsele, Ramsele, Näsåker, Långsele and Undrom are examples of robust places and villages in the community.

Facts about Sollefteå community:

Population (2009): around 20 500
Area: 5433 square kilometres
Distance from north to south: 130 kilometres
Distance from west to east: 113 kilometres
Population of the main city of Sollefteå: around 9000
Ångermanälven river: 450 kilometres. The river runs through the community, and the distance from Sollefteå to the sea, makes it Sweden´s longest navigable river.

Updated 10/03/2009

* What is a nipa?
More than 23000 years ago the entire area of Scandinavia was covered by the great inland-ice.
With the arrival of a warmer period, the ice began to melt.

A new period began when the river valley with its enormous delta stratum consisting of sand and finer material began to rise from the sea.

As the land rose up the river “dug" into its own stratum. That in its turn led to the formation of steep silty riverbanks and the creation of a unique landscape. Those formations are called nipa or nipor.