It is bordered (clockwise from the north) by Swedish Lapland, Västerbotten, the Gulf of Bothnia, Medelpad and Jämtland.

The traditional provinces of Sweden, while remaining culturally and historically important, no longer serve as administrative or political entities.

The coast of Ångermanland is mountainous and features an extensive archipelago with many steep islands, deep bays and fjords – among them the mouth of the Ångerman River.

The landscape is generally accounted picturesque, particularly in the thickly wooded Ådalen region around the Ångerman River.

The coast line on the Gulf of Bothnia, called the Höga Kusten, has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The land still rises at the rate of about one centimetre per year, as an effect of the last ice age that ended in the 7th millennium BC.