Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County (Norrbottens län) is a Swedish county or län in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to Västerbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia. It also borders to Lapland Province in Finland, Nordland and Troms counties in Norway.

Population

The population has still increased during the last hundred years. In the 1912 concensus, the population was 166,641, (4,000 more males than females), and of this, around 120,000 belonged to the Västerbotten part. Twenty years earlier, in 1892, the population was however only 110,000. {{ref|population}}

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