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Kiruna Municipality
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municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Norrbotten County
- Seat
- Kiruna
- Total
- 20,551.42 km (7,934.95 sq mi)
- Land
- 19,140.33 km (7,390.12 sq mi)
- Water
- 1,411.09 km (544.82 sq mi)
- Density
- 1.1731/km (3.0384/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Lapland
- Website
- www.kiruna.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Norrbotten County
- Capital
- Kiruna
- Official language
- Meänkieli
- Population
- 22402
- Area
- 1390.05
- Shares border with
- Enontekiö
- Highest point
- Kebnekaise
- Employees
- 2225
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- kiruna.se
- Image
- Kiruna nya stadshus 01.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Narvik Municipality
- short name
- kiiruna
- topic's main category
- Category:Kiruna Municipality
- Commons category
- Kiruna Municipality
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- catchphrase
- Ett rent nöje
- citizens' initiative URL
- kiruna.se/download/18.5d3963d5176d7b368b5d0715/1611299819439/Formul%C3%A4r%20f%C3%B6r%20kommunkontakten.pdf
- phone number
- +46-980-700-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/kiruna_municipality
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Kiruna Municipality (Swedish: Kiruna kommun; Northern Sami: Giron gielda; Meänkieli: Kierunan kunta; Finnish: Kiirunan kunta) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northernmost Sweden. Its seat is located in Kiruna. It is the northernmost municipality in Sweden, and at 20,715 square kilometres (7,998 sq mi) is Sweden's geographically largest covering roughly 4.604% of its total area. Finnish, Meänkieli and Sami have the official status of being minority languages in the municipality.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiruna Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.