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Kalix Municipality
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municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Norrbotten County
- Seat
- Kalix
- Total
- 3,712.06 km (1,433.23 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,807.67 km (697.95 sq mi)
- Water
- 1,904.39 km (735.29 sq mi)
- Density
- 8.5004/km (22.016/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Norrbotten
- Website
- www.kalix.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Norrbotten County
- Capital
- Kalix
- Official language
- Meänkieli
- Population
- 15252
- Area
- 1912.49
- Shares border with
- Luleå Municipality
- Employees
- 1575
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.kalix.se
- Image
- Kalix kommunhus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kalix Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Kalix Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Pielavesi
- short name
- Kalix
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- native label
- Kalix kommun
- catchphrase
- Där älven möter havet
- social media followers
- 1149
- phone number
- +46-923-65000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/kalix_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Kalix Municipality (Swedish: Kalix kommun; Meänkieli: Kaihnuun kunta; Finnish: Kalixin kunta) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Kalix.
In 1924 Töre Municipality was detached from Nederkalix Municipality, forming a municipality of its own. In 1967 the two units were reunified, and the present municipality was created.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kalix Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.