Porjus

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Porjus

Porjus is a village in Jokkmokk Municipality

Jokkmokk Municipality

Jokkmokk Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Jokkmokk.The name Jokkmokk is Sami languages for the words "river" and "bend", since the town is situated close to a bend in the nearby river....
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

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....
, with a population of 380 inhabitants. Geographically it is situated by the shores of Lule River

Lule River

Lule River is a major river in Sweden, rising in northern Sweden and flowing southeast for 460 km before reaching the Gulf of Bothnia at Lule?....
at 499 meter height.

Porjus is known for having one of the oldest hydropower

Hydropower

Hydropower, hydraulic power or water power is power that is derived from the force or energy of moving water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes....
plants in Sweden, built 1910-1915. The power plant was built to deliver electricity to the building of the railroad between Luleå

Luleå

Lule? , is a Cities in Sweden with a population of 57 144 in the urban area, and 73 416 including connecting suburbs. The city is located at the coast of Norrbotten in northern Sweden....
and Narvik

Narvik

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Nordland Counties of Norway, Norway. Narvik is located on the shores of the Ofotfjord ....
, where the mining industry shipped iron ore.

Today, Porjus is a living village and the old power plant is a popular tourist attraction among many others.

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Porjus is a village in Jokkmokk Municipality

Jokkmokk Municipality

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

Lule River

Hydropower

Luleå

Narvik

Vattenfall

Vattenfall is a Sweden electric company and one of the leading energy producers in Northern Europe. The name Vattenfall is Swedish for waterfall, and is an abbreviation of its original name, Royal Waterfall Board ....
is the biggest employer, but there are also a number of smaller companies such as the small aviation company , which offered the first regular passenger flights in Sweden back in the days (the route: Porjus - Suorva). There is also a unique golf course (you play across the Lule river, next to a big dam), a small downhill skiing course, snowmobile routes, small shops, a 50 kilometer long walking trail from Gällivare

Gällivare

G?llivare is a town in Lapland, Sweden and the seat of G?llivare Municipality, Norrbotten County. Together with nearby towns Malmberget and Koskullskulle it forms a conurbation with nearly 16,000 inhabitants....
, used by the workers to carry building material 90 years ago, and a unique which has aurora borealis as its specialty.

Porjus was the home of the online artists Lagoona

Lagoona

Lagoona was a dance and techno band, consisting of the two music producers Andreas Viklund and Bj?rn Karlsson . The band was based in a small town called Porjus in northern Sweden....
between the years 1996-2004. Singer Birgitta Svendén

Birgitta Svendén

Birgitta Svend?n , is a Sweden operatic .Svend?n, who was born in Porjus and raised in Vuollerim, studied at the Opera in Stockholm. She has made an international career in the first place as a Wagner singer, especially at the Bayreuth Festival....
and the current MD of major Swedish technology company Ericsson, Carl-Henric Svanberg, are two other well-known persons who was born in Porjus.

Porjus is also the last stop before you enter Laponia area, a UNESCO world heritage area which includes four national parks.

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(in Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
)