Pello
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Pello (formerly Turtola) is a municipality of Finland. It is located approximately north of the Arctic Circle in the western part of the province of Lapland, and is part of the Lapland region. The municipality is on the national border with Sweden, by the Tornio River. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pello
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- Municipality
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- Pello.kuntakilpi.jpg
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- Pellon vaakuna.svg
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- 120x80px
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- Pello sijainti Suomi.svg
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- Location of Pello in Finland
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- Interactive map outlining Pello.
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- Country
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- Region
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- Lapland
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- Sub-region
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- Tornio Valley
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- Municipal manager
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- Sami Baas
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- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1867
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- EET
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Pello (formerly Turtola) is a municipality of Finland. It is located approximately north of the Arctic Circle in the western part of the province of Lapland, and is part of the Lapland region. The municipality is on the national border with Sweden, by the Tornio River. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually Finnish, according to the legal definition in Finland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pello” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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