Bjurholm is a

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and seat of

Bjurholm Municipality Bjurholm Municipality () is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Bjurholm. The present municipality has the same territory as the one instituted in 1863, when the municipal system was implemented in ...

Västerbotten County Västerbotten County ( sv, Västerbottens län) is a county or ''län'' in the north of Sweden. It shares the borders with the counties of Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Norrbotten, as well as the Norwegian county of Nordland and the Gulf of Bot ...

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with 968 inhabitants in 2010. It is the second smallest municipal seat in Sweden (

Österbymo Österbymo is a locality and the seat of Ydre Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingd ...

is smaller) and the seat of the least populated municipality in the country. A tourist attraction in the region is ''Älgens Hus'' (The Elk house). Here visitors can see a tame moose and find out more about elks. There had been an earlier simple wooden church here that was built at the start of the nineteenth century. The current church is higher than the main town and it dates from 1932 when the second church that had been built in 1875 burnt down. The current church includes a chandelier from the older church and its more recent bells included some alloy from the bells lost to the fire.Bjurholm Church
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Municipal seats of Västerbotten County Swedish municipal seats Populated places in Västerbotten County Populated places in Bjurholm Municipality {{Västerbotten-geo-stub