Norrland
Norrbotten County
Jokkmokk Municipality

Porjus

Porjus is a locality situated in , , with 328 inhabitants in 2010. Geographically it is situated by the shores of at 499 meter height.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Porjus Hydroelectric Power Station and Porjus.

Power station
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Porjus power station is one of the oldest and largest power plants in , situated near Porjus. It was built 1910-1915 and has a power of 480 MW. Besides three-phase AC, the plant originally also generated single phase 15 Hz AC for railway traction and hence, two single-phase 80 kV power lines ran along the Iron Ore Line Malmbanan where it was transformed down to 16 kV in substations.

Railway station
Photo: Kolbkorr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Church
Photo: Dove SV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Porjus

Latitude
66.96008° or 66° 57′ 36″ north
Longitude
19.82223° or 19° 49′ 20″ east
Population
240
Elevation
384 metres (1,260 feet)
Open location code
9FRXXR6C+2V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1420425719
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2684034
Wiki­data ID
Q1018421
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Swedish—“Porjus” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Porjus”
  • Catalan: “Porjus”
  • Cebuano: “Porjus”
  • Chinese: “Porjus”
  • Chinese: “波爾尤斯”
  • Danish: “Porjus”
  • Dutch: “Porjus”
  • Finnish: “Porjus”
  • French: “Porjus”
  • German: “Porjus”
  • Irish: “Porjus”
  • Italian: “Porjus”
  • Japanese: “ポリウス (スウェーデン)”
  • Ladin: “Porjus”
  • Lule Sami: “Bårjås”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Porjus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Porjus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Porjus”
  • Norwegian: “Porjus”
  • Polish: “Porjus”
  • Russian: “Порьюс”
  • Swedish: “Porjus”

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