Pajala Municipality
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municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden
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The entry is geolocated on the map in adm2nd.
It is catalogued under topics including Meänkieli-language municipalities, Municipalities of Norrbotten County and Pajala Municipality.
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Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Norrbotten County
- Seat
- Pajala
- Total
- 8,050.73 km (3,108.40 sq mi)
- Land
- 7,840.19 km (3,027.11 sq mi)
- Water
- 210.54 km (81.29 sq mi)
- Density
- 0.737/km (1.91/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Norrbotten
- Website
- www.pajala.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Norrbotten County
- Capital
- Pajala
- Official language
- Meänkieli
- Population
- 5706
- Area
- 211.09
- Shares border with
- Övertorneå Municipality
- Employees
- 625
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.pajala.se
- Image
- Pajala kyrka i juli 2004..JPG
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- Commons category
- Pajala Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Pajala Municipality
- short name
- Pajala
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- catchphrase
- Makalösa Pajala / Här kan man få vara ifred
- phone number
- +46-978-12000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/pajala_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Pajala Municipality (Swedish: Pajala kommun; Meänkieli and Finnish: Pajalan kunta) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden, bordering Finland. Its seat is located in the locality of Pajala.
In 1884 Tärendö was detached from Pajala Municipality, forming a municipality of its own. In 1914 Pajala Municipality was once again split when Junosuando broke away. They were reunited in 1971, when Korpilombolo was added as well.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pajala Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.