Tornio

Also known as Torneå, Duortnus, Torne

Tornio (; ; ; ) is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side. The municipality covers an area of , of which is water. The population density is , with a total population of ().

AI overview

Tornio is a city in Finland's northernmost region, Lapland, that sits right on the border with Sweden and shares a close relationship with the Swedish town of Haparanda as a twin city. The area is notable for its sparse population spread across a large territory that includes significant water coverage.

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Tornio
Settlement.other_name: TorneåDuortnusTuárnus
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: Tornio Hallituskatu.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Central Tornio
Settlement.image_shield: Tornio.vaakuna.svg
Settlement.shield_size: 120x80px
Settlement.image_map: Tornio sijainti Suomi.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Tornio in Finland
Settlement.map_caption1: Interactive map outlining Tornio.
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Lapland
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Sub-region
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Kemi-Tornio
Settlement.leader_title: Town manager
Settlement.leader_name: Jukka Kujala
Settlement.established_title: Charter

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections

Contents

History
Sports
Climate
Transport
Notable people
Twin towns – sister cities
Gallery
See also
References
External links

Tornio is unilingually Finnish with a negligible number of native Swedish speakers, although this does not count vast numbers of bilinguals who speak Swedish as a second language, with an official target of universal working bilingualism for both border municipalities.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tornio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.