Kiruna Municipality

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Kiruna Municipality

Kiruna Municipality (Swedish

Swedish language

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: Kiruna kommun) is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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in 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....
in northernmost 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....
. Its seat is located in Kiruna

Kiruna

Kiruna is the northernmost Stad in Sweden, situated in Lapland, Sweden province, with 18,154 inhabitants in 2005. It is the seat of Kiruna Municipality in Norrbotten County....
.

Kiruna Municipality is the northernmost municipality in Sweden, and at about 20,000 km² is Sweden's geographically largest, being as large as the combined area of Sweden's three southernmost provinces

Provinces of Sweden

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Scania

Scania

Scania may refer to:*Scania , Swedish truck manufacturer with origins in Scania.*Scania Market, annual market for herring in Scania during the Middle Ages...
, Blekinge

Blekinge

is one of the provinces of Sweden , situated in the south of the country. It borders Sm?land, Sk?ne and the Baltic Sea.Blekinge consists of 5 towns; Karlskrona, Ronneby, Karlshamn, S?lvesborg and Olofstr?m....
and Halland

Halland

is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden , on the western coast of Sweden. It borders V?sterg?tland, Sm?land, Sk?ne and the sea of Kattegat....
, or slightly smaller than the country

Country

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of Slovenia

Slovenia

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.

Meänkieli

Meänkieli

Me?nkieli is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in the most northern parts of Sweden, around the valley of the Torne River. From a linguistic point of view Me?nkieli is a mutually intelligible dialect of Finnish language, but for political and historical reasons it has the status of a minority language in Sweden....
and Sami

Sami languages

Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe....
have the official status of being minority language

Minority language

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s in the municipality.

During the 20th century the mining

Mining

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settlement Kiruna

Kiruna

Parish

A parish is a local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Methodist, and Presbyterianism churches....
of Jukkasjärvi

Jukkasjärvi

Jukkasj?rvi is a locality in Lapland, Sweden in northern Sweden, situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County. It has 519 inhabitants , situated at 321 meters elevation....
, at that time a rural

Rural

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municipality in very remote territory.

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Kiruna Municipality (Swedish

Swedish language

Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 Counties of Sweden ....
in 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....
in northernmost Sweden

Sweden

Kiruna

Provinces of Sweden

Scania

Scania may refer to:*Scania , Swedish truck manufacturer with origins in Scania.*Scania Market, annual market for herring in Scania during the Middle Ages...
, Blekinge

Blekinge

Halland

is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden , on the western coast of Sweden. It borders V?sterg?tland, Sm?land, Sk?ne and the sea of Kattegat....
, or slightly smaller than the country

Country

Slovenia

Meänkieli

Sami languages

Minority language

Mining

Kiruna

Parish

A parish is a local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Methodist, and Presbyterianism churches....
of Jukkasjärvi

Jukkasjärvi

Rural

Borough

A borough is an administrative division of various countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely....
established within a rural municipality to take care of some matters of urban

Urban area

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character) was instituted in 1908. The settlement grew (it even had a tram

Tram

A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railroad car, of lighter weight and construction than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities, on tracks running primarily on streets....
way system) and it was decided to make it a city. On January 1, 1948 the whole parish of Jukkasjärvi was transformed into the City of Kiruna. As the vast wilderness

Wilderness

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around the town itself was included, Kiruna was at that time regarded as the largest city municipality in the world. Only a few more cities were instituted in Sweden, the last one in 1951. Instead the differences between the three types of municipalities were diminished and finally abolished all together. In 1971 Kiruna, as all others, became a unitary municipality and at the same time merged with Karesuando

Karesuando

Karesuando is the northernmost locality and church village of Sweden, located at the Muonio River on the border to Finland. The village is in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County....
.

Geography

Kebnekaise

Kebnekaise is the highest mountain in Sweden and S?pmi . The Kebnekaise massif, which is part of the Scandinavian Mountains, has two peaks, of which the southern, glaciated one is highest at 2,104 metres above sea level at the latest time of measurement....
is Sweden's and Sápmi's highest mountain

Mountain

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at 2,104 metres above mean sea level

Above mean sea level

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. There are more than 6,000 lake

Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
s in Kiruna municipality, Lake Torneträsk

Torneträsk

Tornetr?sk or Torne tr?sk is a lake in the Lapland, Sweden, Norrbotten County in Sweden, in the Scandinavian mountain range. Tr?sk is the local word for lake....
being the largest. Seven river

River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
s run through the municipality, named Kalix River

Kalix River

The Kalix River is one of the four major rivers of Norrland, northern Sweden, that are untouched by water power constructions. It is 461 kilometres long, flowing up to the Kebnekajse mountain range in Kiruna Municipality....
, Torne River

Torne River

The Torne River , is a river in northern Sweden and Finland. Approximately a half of the river's length is a part of the border between these two countries....
, Lainio River

Lainio River

The Lainio River is a river in Kiruna Municipality in the far north of Swedish Lapland, Sweden. Its source is a mountain lake, R?stojaure , which lies along the border with Norway....
, Rautas River

Rautas River

The Rautas River is an early contributary to the Torne River in Sweden Lapland, Sweden.It originates in Rautasjaure in the mountains of northwestern Lapland, at an elevation of 560 m above mean sea level....
and Vittangi River, as well as Könkämä River and Muonio River

Muonio River

The Muonio River is a river of northern Finland and Sweden. It is a tributary of the Torne River. Together the two rivers form the national border between Finland and Sweden....
which mark the border

Border

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to 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....
. The untouched geography has also been noted with the establishment of Abisko National Park

Abisko National Park

Abisko National Park is a List of national parks of Sweden in Sweden.Geographically, Abisko is situated in the Swedish province of Swedish Lapland near the Norway border , and belongs to Kiruna Municipality, Sweden's northernmost and largest municipality....
, by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
border, established as early as 1909.

Localities

There are seven localities

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English language translation of the Swedish language term t?tort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality....
(or urban areas) in Kiruna Municipality:

#	Locality	Population
1	Kiruna Kiruna Kiruna is the northernmost Stad in Sweden, situated in Lapland, Sweden province, with 18,154 inhabitants in 2005. It is the seat of Kiruna Municipality in Norrbotten County....	18,154
2	Vittangi Vittangi Vittangi is a village in Lappland, Sweden, situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County.References ...	789
3	Jukkasjärvi Jukkasjärvi Jukkasj?rvi is a locality in Lapland, Sweden in northern Sweden, situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County. It has 519 inhabitants , situated at 321 meters elevation....	519
4	Svappavaara Svappavaara Svappavaara is a mining village in Lappland, Sweden, situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County. The mine was closed in 1983, but enrichment of iron ore from the mine at Kiruna is still going on....	394
5	Kuttainen Kuttainen Kuttainen is a village in Lappland, Sweden, situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County.References ...	364
6	Karesuando Karesuando Karesuando is the northernmost locality and church village of Sweden, located at the Muonio River on the border to Finland. The village is in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County....	313
7	Övre Soppero Övre Soppero ?vre Soppero is a village in Lappland, Sweden, situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County.References ...	220

The municipal seat in bold

Emphasis (typography)

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Sister city

Kiruna Municipality has one sister city

Town twinning

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:

Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk

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, Russia
Russia

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Notable native

Börje Salming
Börje Salming

Anders B?rje Salming is a retired Swedish people professional ice hockey defenceman of Sami people extraction. He played for Kiruna AIF, Bryn?s IF, the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and AIK Hockey....
, ice hockey
Ice hockey

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player

External links

- Official site