Brändön is a

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situated in

Luleå Municipality Luleå Municipality () is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Luleå, which is also the county seat of Norrbotten County. Localities There are 18 localities (or urban areas) in Luleå Municipality: ...

Norrbotten County Norrbotten County ( sv, Norrbottens län; se, Norrbottena leatna, fi, Norrbottenin lääni) is the northernmost county or '' län'' of Sweden. It is also the largest county by land area, almost a quarter of Sweden's total area. It shares border ...

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with 287 inhabitants in 2010. It gives its name to the island and fishing village of

Brändöskär Brändöskär and Uddskär are two islands in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Luleå archipelago, joined by an isthmus. In the past there was a large summer fishing village around the bay between the two islands ...

in the outer

Luleå archipelago The Luleå archipelago ( sv, Luleå Skärgård or ''Lule Skärgård'') is a group of Swedish islands in the north part of the Bay of Bothnia. They lie offshore from the city of Luleå and the mouth of the Lule River. A few of the islands have sma ...

, which the people of Brändön used as a base for fishing in the summer.

References

Populated places in Luleå Municipality Norrbotten {{Norrbotten-geo-stub