page_title: Umeå
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Umeå / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: A bus stop in central Umeå, northern Sweden.
context_page_description: Umeå is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County.
  Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest locality in Norrland and the thirteenth largest in Sweden, with 89,607 inhabitants in 2019. The municipality had 129,231 inhabitants as of 2020. When Umeå University was established in 1965, growth accelerated, and the amount of housing has doubled in the last 30 years. As of 2011, 700 to 800 new apartments are constructed each year.
  Umeå is a university town and centre of education, technical and medical research in northern Sweden, with two universities and over enrolled 39,000 students. Umeå was the European Capital of Culture during 2014, along with Riga in Latvia.
context_section_description: The road infrastructure includes two European highways (E4 and E12) which pass the city. The local bus system is centred at Vasaplan in the city centre, and has multiple routes travelling throughout the city. About 4 kilometres (2 miles) from the city centre is Umeå Airport. It is the 7th largest airport in Sweden by number of passengers, with 844,932 passengers in 2010.
  The Bothnia Line (Botniabanan) connects to Umeå from the south, it runs along the High Coast via Örnsköldsvik to Umeå. This railway was opened on 28 August 2010. The new railway line is 190 km (118 mi) long, containing 140 bridges and 25 kilometres (16 miles) of tunnels. It provides Umeå with a fast train connection to Stockholm (​6 ¹⁄₂ hours). A new railway station, Umeå East Station, was built in connection to Norrland's University Hospital and Umeå University.
  The Wasaline ferry takes four hours to arrive at Vaasa, Finland.
  Umeå is located along the Blue Highway, which is an international tourist route from Mo i Rana, Norway to Pudozh, Russia via Finland.
caption: A bus stop in central Umeå
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