Kolari is a municipality of Finland. The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country. ...
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It is located in the province of Lapland. The municipality has a population of 3,908 and covers an area of 2618.26 km² of which 55.57 km² is water. The population density is 1.5 inhabitants per km². File links The following pages link to this file: Kolari Categories: GFDL images ... File links The following pages link to this file: Kolari Categories: GFDL images ... Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län), following a 1997 redesign that reduced their number from 12. ... The Province of Lapland is one of the Provinces of Finland, and a part of the larger geographical area of Lapland, which spans over four countries. ...
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Most of the people are speaking the meänkieli dialect. Meänkieli (Meänkieli: lit. ...
We are a vivid municipality in western Lapland, situated in the Tornio valley at the border to Sweden.
The main village of Kolari was founded in 1867 – with its name presumably deriving from coal findings in the area – and has developed ever since into a thriving little town with well established connections across the border to Sweden, namely to the provincial capital of Pajala.
Natural resources have always been of essence for the local inhabitants, and nowadays it is the visitors who may take advantage of – and be a part in - this rich heritage: Fishing, horse riding, sheep farming, tar burning and the century old tradition of reindeer herding.
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