Haparanda
Haparanda is a city in Norrbotten, at Sweden's easternmost point. The Finnish town of Tornio is just across the Torne River. It is a great gateway to the wild north of Scandinavia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Haparanda railway station and Tornio city Library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tornio and Marielund.
Tornio
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Tornio is a city in Finnish Lapland, by the border to Sweden. Tornio 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.
Marielund
Suburb
Marielund is a locality situated in Haparanda Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden 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.
Haparanda
- Type: Town with 4,780 residents
- Description: urban area in Haparanda Municipality, Sweden
- Categories: urban area in Sweden, border city, town divided by border, and locality
- Location: Haparanda Municipality, Norrbotten County, Norrland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.8357° or 65° 50′ 8″ northLongitude
24.1357° or 24° 8′ 9″ eastPopulation
4,780Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE HAAOpen location code
9GQ6R4PP+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 27561960OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Croatian: “Haparanda”
- Czech: “Haparanda”
- Danish: “Haparanda”
- Dutch: “Haparanda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هاپاراندا”
- Esperanto: “Haparanda”
- Estonian: “Haparanda”
- Faroese: “Haparanda”
- Finnish: “Euroopan neulansilmä”
- Finnish: “Haaparanta”
- Finnish: “Maailman neulansilmä”
- French: “Haparanda”
- Galician: “Haparanda”
- German: “Haparanda”
- Greek: “Χαπαράντα”
- Icelandic: “Haparanda”
- Ido: “Haparanda”
- Indonesian: “Haparanda”
- Irish: “Haparanda”
- Italian: “Haparanda”
- Japanese: “ハパランダ”
- Korean: “하파란다”
- Kurdish: “Haparanda”
- Ladin: “Haparanda”
- Lithuanian: “Haparanda”
- Macedonian: “Хапаранда”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Haparanda”
- Northern Frisian: “Haparanda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Haaparanta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Haparanda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haparanda”
- Norwegian: “Haparanda”
- Ossetian: “Хапарандæ”
- Persian: “هاپاراندا”
- Polish: “Haparanda”
- Portuguese: “Haparanda”
- Romanian: “Haparanda”
- 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.