Haparanda

Haparanda is a city in Norrbotten, at Sweden's easternmost point. The town of is just across the Torne River. It is a great gateway to the wild north of Scandinavia.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Haparanda railway station and Tornio city Library.

Railway station

Library
Photo: Estormiz, CC0.

Railway station

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tornio and Marielund.

is a city in , by the border to Sweden. is mostly a summer destination or a place to visit for extensive shopping. While it may be a good place to view the northern lights, many things are closed during the winter – without necessarily being advertised as such.

Suburb
is a locality situated in , , with 1,726 inhabitants in 2010. It was built as a suburb to Haparanda in the 1970s and then got the name Mattila after a small village in the neighbourhood.

Suburb
Photo: Methem, CC BY 3.0.
is a suburb.

Haparanda

Latitude
65.8357° or 65° 50′ 8″ north
Longitude
24.1357° or 24° 8′ 9″ east
Population
4,780
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SE HAA
Open location code
9GQ6R4PP+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27561960
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
605859
Wiki­data ID
Q588976
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Haparanda” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: هاباراندا
  • Belarusian: Хапаранда
  • Bulgarian: Хапаранда
  • Catalan: Haparanda
  • Cebuano: Haparanda
  • Chinese: Haparanda
  • Chinese: 哈帕兰达
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  • Egyptian Arabic: هاپاراندا
  • Esperanto: Haparanda
  • Estonian: Haparanda
  • Faroese: Haparanda
  • Finnish: Euroopan neulansilmä
  • Finnish: Haaparanta
  • Finnish: Maailman neulansilmä
  • French: Haparanda
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  • German: Haparanda
  • Greek: Χαπαράντα
  • Icelandic: Haparanda
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  • Japanese: ハパランダ
  • Korean: 하파란다
  • Kurdish: Haparanda
  • Ladin: Haparanda
  • Lithuanian: Haparanda
  • Macedonian: Хапаранда
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  • Northern Frisian: Haparanda
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Haaparanta
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Haparanda
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  • Norwegian: Haparanda
  • Ossetian: Хапарандæ
  • Persian: هاپاراندا
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  • Russian: Хапаранда
  • Serbo-Croatian: Haparanda
  • Slovenian: Haparanda
  • Somali: Haparanda
  • Spanish: Haparanda
  • Swedish: Haparanda
  • Turkish: Haparanda
  • Ukrainian: Гапаранда
  • Volapük: Haparanda
  • Welsh: Haparanda
  • Western Frisian: Haparanda

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Haparanda”. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.