The Torne Valley or Torne River Valley, is a valley on the border of Sweden and Finland. It is named after the Torne River flowing through the valley and into the Gulf of Bothnia. The Torne River (Finnish: Tornionjoki, Swedish: Torne älv, Torneälven, Northern Sami: Duortneseatnu, Meankieli: Tornionväyla), is a river on the border between Sweden and Finland. ... The Baltic Sea The Gulf of Bothnia (Fin. ...

On the Swedish side of the valley is a home to a unique culture of the Tornedalians, which has its own language, Meänkieli. The language is a variant - or a dialect - of the Finnish language and is sometimes called Torne Valley Finnish. The originally Finnish-speaking surrounding territory is far greater than the actual river valley; it extends as far west as Gällivare in today's Sweden, and in historical terms all the way to the coastal areas of the Atlantic Ocean - by the Lofot Islands, and north from there - in Norway. The Tornedalians or Tornedalian Finns are members of Finnic peoples, traditionally speaking Meänkieli (which is widely considered to be a Finnish dialect). ... Meänkieli (Meänkieli: lit. ... Finnish ( â–¶(?)) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92%) and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. ... Gällivare Municipality is a Municipality in Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden where Gällivare is seat. ...

Although confusing from a geographic point of view, the entire Tornedalian area in Sweden is often referred to as Torne Valley and the larger area of the Northern Scandinavian Peninsula historically inhabited by the Tordedalians and other so called Cwen people is historically referred to as Cwenland. This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

The Tornedalians are descendants of Finns and members of the so called Cwen people, who are all descendants of Finns. Besides the Cwens, also the Finnic Sami people have throughout the known history inhabited the traditional territories of Cwenland. Finnic (Fennic, sometimes Baltic-Finnic) may refer to languages similar to Finnish spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i. ... Sami flag The Sami People (there are other names and spellings including Sámi, Saami and Lapp) are an indigenous people of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, covering a total area in the Nordic countries corresponding to the size of Sweden. ...