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Övertorneå Municipality
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municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Norrbotten County
- Seat
- Övertorneå
- Total
- 2,492.29 km (962.28 sq mi)
- Land
- 2,362.07 km (912.00 sq mi)
- Water
- 130.22 km (50.28 sq mi)
- Density
- 1.707/km (4.420/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Norrbotten
- Website
- www.overtornea.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Location
- Övertorneå, Sweden
- Also known as
- Övertorneå Kommun
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.451867.9 · ISNI 0000 0004 0508 8910
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Norrbotten County
- Capital
- Övertorneå
- Official language
- Meänkieli
- Population
- 3995
- Area
- 130.26
- Body of water
- Torne River
- Shares border with
- Pello
- Employees
- 575
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.overtornea.se
- Image
- Övertorneå centrum bild 16.JPG
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- Commons category
- Övertorneå Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Övertorneå Municipality
- short name
- Övertorneå
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- phone number
- +46-927-72000
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.overtornea.se/sv/Kommun--Politik/Politik/paverka-din-kommun/Medborgarforslag
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/overtornea_municipality
- number of viewers/listeners
- 494115
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Encyclopedic overview
Övertorneå Municipality (Swedish: Övertorneå kommun, Meänkieli: Matarengin kunta) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden, bordering Finland. Its seat is located in Övertorneå.
Until the Finnish War (1808–1809) Övertorneå and the Finnish Ylitornio were a single parish. Following the war, the eastern part of the municipality was ceded to Russia as a part of Finland. In 1870 a minor part of Övertorneå Municipality was split off, forming the rural municipality Korpilombolo (now part of Pajala Municipality). In 1969 Övertorneå and Hietaniemi municipalities were merged, forming the present municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Övertorneå Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.