Pajala Municipality

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Pajala Municipality

Pajala Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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in Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County

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in northern Sweden

Sweden

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, bordering 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....
. Its seat is located in Pajala

Pajala

Pajala is a urban areas of Sweden in Norrbotten, Sweden and the seat of Pajala Municipality, Norrbotten County....
.

In 1884 Tärendö was detached from Pajala Municipality, forming a municipality of its own. In 1914 Pajala Municipality was once again split when Junosuando broke away. They were reunited in 1971, when Korpilombolo

Korpilombolo

Korpilombolo is a urban areas in Sweden in Pajala Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. It has a population of 548 .References...
was added as well.

geographical location means that Pajala Municipality has always been a natural trading place, where people from Sweden, Finland and the native Sami people

Sami people

The S?mi people, are the indigenous people Indigenous peoples of Europe inhabiting S?pmi , which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia....
gathered.

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Pajala Municipality is a municipality

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 northern Sweden

Sweden

Finland

Pajala

Korpilombolo

Korpilombolo is a urban areas in Sweden in Pajala Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. It has a population of 548 .References...
was added as well.

History

Its geographical location means that Pajala Municipality has always been a natural trading place, where people from Sweden, Finland and the native Sami people

Sami people

Market

A market is any one of a variety of different systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby persons trade, and goods and services are exchanged, forming part of the economy....
traces its history from the 18th century.

The home of Lars Levi Læstadius

Lars Levi Læstadius

Lars Levi L?stadius was a Sweden Lutheran pastor of partly Sami people ancestry. From the mid 1840's and onward he became the leader of the Laestadian movement....
is located in Pajala. It is the red house to the right, now designated as a museum

Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
. The yellow house in the middle was used as the vicar's mansion from 1850 up to recent times.

Geography

The municipality is one of Sweden's largest at around 8,000 km², or roughly the size of the historical province

Provinces of Sweden

The provinces of Sweden, landskap, are historical, geographical and cultural regions. Sweden has 25 provinces and they have no administrative function, but remain historical legacies and the means of cultural identification....
of Södermanland

Södermanland

, sometimes referred to under its Latin form Sudermannia or Sudermania, is a Provinces of Sweden or landskap on the south eastern coast of Sweden....
, which - compared to Pajala Municipality's population of approximately 6,500 - has more than one million inhabitants.

In Pajala is also Jupukkamasten, a 335 metre tall guyed mast

Guyed mast

A guyed mast is a Radio masts and towers that receives support from guy rope lines. See list of masts for examples of guyed mast structures.Most guyed masts are used as transmission towers, either by supporting aerials on the top, or by using the entire structure as an antenna ....
for FM- and TV-transmission, which together with three other guyed masts of the same height is the tallest structure in Sweden.

Localities

There are four 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 Pajala Municipality:

#	Locality	Population
1	Pajala Pajala Pajala is a urban areas of Sweden in Norrbotten, Sweden and the seat of Pajala Municipality, Norrbotten County....	1,985
2	Korpilombolo Korpilombolo Korpilombolo is a urban areas in Sweden in Pajala Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. It has a population of 548 .References...	548
3	Junosuando	345
4	Kangos	278

The municipal seat in bold

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Sister cities

Pajala Municipality has three sister cities

Town twinning

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:

Målselv
Målselv

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, Norway
Norway

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Kolari
Kolari

Kolari is a municipalities of Finland of Finland at the Sweden border, which follows the Torne River, the longest free-flowing river in Europe....
, 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....
Olenegorsk, Russia
Russia

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External links

- Official site