This page deals with both Kiruna Municipality and the urban area (tätort) Kiruna
Kiruna Municipality (Kommun)
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| | County | Norrbotten County | | Province | Norrbotten | Area - Rank
| 19,446.8 km²
1st of 290 | Population - Rank
(2005) | 23,254
105th of 290 | | Density | 1.2/km² | Kiruna municipality is a Swedish municipality in northernmost Sweden where the Swedish city Kiruna (pop. 20,000) is seat. The municipality has the largest area in Sweden with 19,446.8 km². A county, or län, is an administrative and political subdivision of Sweden. ...
Norrbotten County, or Norrbottens län, or North Bothnia is a County or län in the extreme north of Sweden. ...
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Norrbotten is the name of an unofficial Province (landskap) in Sweden, originally a part of Västerbotten, which gradually grow apart from Västerbotten after the creation of Norrbotten County in 1810. ...
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Geography
Kiruna is the northernmost municipality in Sweden, and geographically it is as large as the three southernmost Swedish provinces Skåne, Blekinge and Halland grouped together. Kiruna became a Swedish city in 1948, and was at one time listed as the largest city in the world by area, but after the Swedish municipality reform in the 1970s, the term "city" has been discontinued. The divisions of Sweden and Finland into historical provinces, called landskap. ...
Skåne? (also known as Scania) is the southernmost historical province (landskap) of Sweden. ...
Blekinge is the name of a geographical region in Sweden which can refer to: Blechingia, or Blekinge - a historical Province of Sweden Blekinge County, or Blekinge län - a current County of Sweden This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same...
Halland is the name of a geographical region in Sweden which can refer to: Hallandia, or Halland - a historical Province of Sweden Halland County, or Hallands län - a current County of Sweden This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same...
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1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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The local mountain, Kebnekaise, is Sweden's highest mountain at 2,117 metres above sea level. There are more than 6,000 lakes in Kiruna municipality, with Torneträsk Lake as the largest. Seven rivers run through the municipality, named Kalix River, Torne River, Lainio River, Rautas River and Vittangi River, as well as the Könkämä River and Muonio River which mark the border with Finland. Kebnekaise (from Sami Giebnegáisi, Cauldron Crest) is the highest mountain in Sweden. ...
Torne träsk (in literal English translation, never used, Torne Swamp) is the name of a lake in north-west Lappland in northernmost Sweden, in the Scandinavian mountain range. ...
The Kalix River (in Swedish: proper Kalix älv; more commonly Kalixälven) is one of the four major rivers of Norrland, northern Sweden, that are untouched by water power constructions. ...
The Torne River, also Torniojoki (in Finnish) or Torne älv (in Swedish), is a river on the border between Sweden and Finland. ...
The Lainio River is a river in Kiruna Municipality in the far north of Swedish Lapland. ...
Being located 145 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, Kiruna has perpetual daylight, the midnight sun, approximately from 30 May to 15 July. The polar night is a few weeks shorter, lasting December 13 – January 5. World map showing the five major circles of latitude Two shirtless young men brave the cold at the edge of the Arctic Circle in Grimsey, Iceland. ...
The midnight sun at Nordkapp, Norway The midnight sun is a phenomenon occurring in latitudes north of the arctic circle and south of the antarctic circle where the sun is continuously visible for at least 24 hours. ...
May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ...
July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ...
The polar night is the night lasting more than 24 hours, usually inside the polar circles. ...
December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
The untouched geography has also been noted with the establishment of Abisko National Park, by the Norwegian border, established as early as 1909. View from Abisko Abisko is a national park in northern Sweden. ...
Name The name Kiruna comes from the Sami language Giron and means ptarmigan, a white bird native to northern areas. This bird is also depicted on the city arms, together with the sign for Iron. Sami is a general name for a group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken in parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in Northern Europe. ...
Binomial name Lagopus mutus (Montin, 1781) The Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) is a small (31-35 cm) bird in the grouse family. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ...
Industry
 Iron ore is extracted in Kiruna and Malmberget, and brought by rail to the harbours of Luleå and Narvik. (Borders as of 1920–1940.) Iron ore extraction is a key industry of the area, and the town is very dependent on the mining company LKAB. Image File history File links Based on Brion Vibbers map of Europe. ...
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Luleå Municipality ( listen, ) is a Swedish municipality in northern Sweden where the city Luleå is seat with a population of about 45,000. ...
Narvik is a town in the county of Nordland, Norway. ...
This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ...
The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ...
LKAB (Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag) is a Swedish high-tech mineral products company. ...
In 2004, it was decided that the present centre of the municipality (N67°49'48'', E20°25'48'') must be relocated to counter mining related subsidence. The relocation should be made gradually over the next decade. 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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In recent years attempts have been made to reduce the area's dependence on mining with initiatives to promote science, R&D and government related activities. Initiatives have included the proposed relocation of the Swedish Space Corporation and the establishment of the Environment and Space Research Institute (Miljö och Rymdforskning institutet); the former was never executed and the latter was essentially only a temporary sucess.
Sights In the village of Jukkasjärvi there is an Ice hotel, a proper hotel wholly built of ice, and reconstructed every year. Jukkasjärvi Lapland Court District, or Jukkasjärvi lappmarks tingslag, was a district of Laponia in Sweden. ...
An Ice hotel is a temporary building made up entirely of snow and sculpted blocks of ice. ...
The church in Kiruna from 1907 is also notable, one of Sweden's largest wooden buildings, built in an Art Nouveau style; it has separately been voted Sweden's best looking church and the foremost Swedish pre-1950 construction. Image File history File links Kiruna_kyrka. ...
Alfons Mucha, lithographed poster Dancel (1898). ...
See also The Municipalities or Kommuner represent the local level of self government in Sweden. ...
Esrange, the European Space and Sounding Rocket Range, is a rocket range and research center located outside the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden at 67°5338 N and 21°0625 E. It is a base for atmospheric research with balloons, investigation of the aurora borealis, and rocket...
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics or Institutet för rymdfysik (IRF) is a Swedish government agency. ...
Radiotjänst i Kiruna is a Swedish PBS, funded by a license fee like BBC, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) etc. ...
The Swedish iron ore was an important theme in the World War II debate. ...
External links - Kiruna - Official site
- BBC - Sweden to save sinking town
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