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Kalix () is a town (pop. 7,300) in Norrbotten
Norrbotten

Norrbotten is a Provinces of Sweden in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to V?sterbotten, west






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Kalix () is a town (pop. 7,300) in Norrbotten
Norrbotten

Norrbotten is a Provinces of Sweden in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to V?sterbotten, west to Swedish Lappland, and east to Finland....
, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 and the seat of Kalix Municipality
Kalix Municipality

Kalix Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Kalix.In 1924 T?re Municipality was detached from Nederkalix Municipality, forming a municipality of its own....
, Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to V?sterbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia....
.

On March 25, 1809, Kalix was the location of the capitulation of the Swedish Army
Swedish Army

The Swedish Army is the army branch of the Swedish Armed Forces, the military of Sweden....
 in the Finnish war
Finnish War

The Finnish War was fought between Kingdom of Sweden and Russian Empire from February 1808 to September 1809. As a result of the war, the eastern third of Sweden was established as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire....
. In effect it surrendered Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 to Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. Peace talks were initiated in the Finnish town Fredrikshamn (or Hamina in Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
), and a peace treaty was signed on August 30.