It was created in 1799 and named in honour of Queen Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Sweden.

Geographically, the Ångerman River flows from Vilhelmina through Åsele Municipality, and many electric power stations are built around it.

It has a wooden church, a small historical (open-air) museum, and a nine-hole golf course.

Blocs This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991.

The municipality has recently received some recognition as the future site of Europe's largest Thai Buddhist temple.