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unusual facts about Arjeplog


Norran

Most of the newspaper's local articles are written in Skellefteå but it also has local editors in Arjeplog, Arvidsjaur, Malå and Norsjö.


Arjeplog Municipality

Arjeplog Municipality consists of a terrain dominated by the Scandinavian Mountains and many water areas.

Laestadianism in America

Some of these new immigrants found themselves in conflict with older, established immigrants from the same countries, being generally poorer and less established, and hewing to the new, fundamentalist teachings of Lars Levi Laestadius, a Swedish-Sami preacher and botanist born in Arjeplog, Sweden.

Ume Sami language

It is a moribund language with only about 10 native speakers left which used to be spoken mainly along the Ume River in the south of present-day Arjeplog, in Sorsele and Arvidsjaur.


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