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Meänkieli is the name used in Sweden for Finnish dialects spoken in the most northern parts of the country, around the valley of the Torne River....
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localityUrban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...
and the seat of
Boden MunicipalityBoden Municipality is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Boden.In 1919 the evolving garrison town of Boden was detached from Överluleå and instituted as a city municipality of its own. In 1967 the rest of Överluleå was merged into the city together with...
in
Norrbotten CountyNorrbotten County is a Swedish county or län in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to Västerbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia. It also borders the counties of Nordland and Troms in Norway, and Lapland Province in Finland....
,
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with 18,680 inhabitants in 2005.
The town of Boden started as a railway junction where the Northern Line (
Norra StambananNorra stambanan is 268 km long electrified railway in Sweden, between Gävle or Storvik and Ånge. The railway consists of single track except the parts between Mo grindar-Holmsveden, Kilafors-Bollnäs and Ramsjö-Ovansjö, a total of 91 km, which is double track....
) met with the Ore Line (
MalmbananMalmbanan, "the ore rail", is a railway line between Luleå, Sweden, and Narvik, Norway. The part of the line that is on Norwegian territory between Narvik and Riksgränsen is called Ofotbanen. The line is used by the mining company LKAB to transport their iron ore from the mines in Kiruna and...
) from the rich orefields in northern Sweden.
The town experienced increased growth when the
Boden FortressBoden Fortress is a modern fortress consisting of several major and minor forts and fortifications surrounding the city of Boden, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden. Although the main forts were finished in 1908, many of the supporting fortifications were not completed until the start of the First...
was constructed in the beginning of the 20th century.
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Boden ' onMouseout='HidePop("23869")' href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Meänkieli">Meänkieli
Meänkieli is the name used in Sweden for Finnish dialects spoken in the most northern parts of the country, around the valley of the Torne River....
:
Puuti, ) is a
localityUrban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...
and the seat of
Boden MunicipalityBoden Municipality is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Boden.In 1919 the evolving garrison town of Boden was detached from Överluleå and instituted as a city municipality of its own. In 1967 the rest of Överluleå was merged into the city together with...
in
Norrbotten CountyNorrbotten County is a Swedish county or län in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to Västerbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia. It also borders the counties of Nordland and Troms in Norway, and Lapland Province in Finland....
,
SwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
with 18,680 inhabitants in 2005.
History
The town of Boden started as a railway junction where the Northern Line (
Norra StambananNorra stambanan is 268 km long electrified railway in Sweden, between Gävle or Storvik and Ånge. The railway consists of single track except the parts between Mo grindar-Holmsveden, Kilafors-Bollnäs and Ramsjö-Ovansjö, a total of 91 km, which is double track....
) met with the Ore Line (
MalmbananMalmbanan, "the ore rail", is a railway line between Luleå, Sweden, and Narvik, Norway. The part of the line that is on Norwegian territory between Narvik and Riksgränsen is called Ofotbanen. The line is used by the mining company LKAB to transport their iron ore from the mines in Kiruna and...
) from the rich orefields in northern Sweden.
The town experienced increased growth when the
Boden FortressBoden Fortress is a modern fortress consisting of several major and minor forts and fortifications surrounding the city of Boden, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden. Although the main forts were finished in 1908, many of the supporting fortifications were not completed until the start of the First...
was constructed in the beginning of the 20th century. The purpose of the fortress was to defend Sweden from an eventual attack from the east, where Russia was considered the most dangerous threat.
Boden got the title of
cityA city is a relatively large and permanent settlement, particularly a large urban settlement. Although there is no agreement on technical definitions distinguishing a city from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status...
in 1919. This title became obsolete in 1971 and Boden is now the seat of Boden Municipality.
Industry
Today Boden is still a military stronghold, and houses the largest garrison of the
Swedish ArmyThe Swedish Army is the army branch of the Swedish Armed Forces, the military of Sweden.- Organization :The peace time organization of the Swedish Army is divided into a number of regiments for the different branches. The number of active regiments has been reduced since the end of the Cold War:-...
.
The army and the municipality are the two largest employers in Boden. As the military is continuously disarming, with the five regiments united into one garrison, the population has decreased by 2,000 people over the past ten years.
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, Nobel Prize winner
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, national B-team member
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- Stig Strömholm
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- Stig Sundqvist, football player
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- Bertil Sundstedt, painter and sculptor
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- Stig Synnergren
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, former Swedish Supreme Commander
- Mats Ulander, ice hockey player, national team member
- Sven Utterström
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