Hej is a village in Jörns socken in the north-west part of

Skellefteå Municipality Skellefteå Municipality () is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Skellefteå. History Most of the amalgamations leading to the present municipality took place in 1967 when the then "City of Skel ...

Västerbotten County Västerbotten County (), sometimes called Westrobothnia, 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 ...

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. The word Hej is the most common greeting in the

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, and the equivalent of 'hi' in English. The village was named in the 19th century when a

surveyor Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the ...

played with the childish rhyme '' Snipp, snapp, snorum, hej basalorum''.

Snipp Snipp is a village in Jörns socken, Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden. The village has repeatedly lost population and after the first decade of the 21st century, there is no longer any permanent residents there. The village ...

Snapp Snapp is a village (nowadays more like a farm), in Jörns socken, Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden. The village got its name in the 19th century when a surveying, geographical surveyor played with the childish rhyme ''Snip S ...

Snorum Snorum is a village, nowadays more like a farm, in Jörns socken, Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula ...

and

Basalorum Basalorum is a former village in Jörns socken in the north-west part of Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden. Basalorum was built in the Jörn Parish by the Swedish state. The village was built in 1836 and got its name in the ...

are four other villages in the vicinity.Karl Fahlgren: ''Skellefte sockens historia'' (1953), p. 80. Printed at Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri AB

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Populated places in Västerbotten County {{sweden-geo-stub