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Sorsele
Europe is one of the five inhabited traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. On the east, Europe is divided from Asia by the water divide of the Ural Mountains and by the Caspian Sea. Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area and third-largest continent after Asia and Africa in population.
Sorsele is a Municipality in Vasterbotten County, in northern Sweden. Its seat is in Sorsele with 1,300 inhabitants. The municipality covers an area of 7,493.2 square kilometers. It is the ninth largest municipality by size, but has the second smallest population of 2,957 inhabitants giving a population density of 0.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. The name appears to stem from the Sami language, sourge, which means branch, and sel, which is of Swedish origination and refers to a kind of stream. This refers to the protected Vindel River, which flows through the town and municipality of Sorsele. Geography wise, around half of the municipal area is part of the Vindelfjallen nature reserve. Vasterbotten County, or Vasterbottens lan is a county or lan in the north of Sweden. It borders to the counties of Vasternorrland, Jamtland, and Norrbotten, as well as the Norwegian county of Nordland and the Gulf of Bothnia.
The Kingdom of Sweden is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, bordered by Norway in the west, Finland in the northeast, the Skagerrak Strait and the Kattegat Strait in the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia in the east. It is connected to Denmark in the southwest by the Oresund Bridge. Sweden has a low population density except in its metropolitan areas, with most of the inland consisting of forests. The country has large natural resources of water, timber, and iron ore.
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