Kiruna

Kiruna in is 's northernmost city and home to 18,000 citizens. It is the centre of , Kiruna kommun, which also includes several small villages, resorts and settlements scattered around a large wilderness area.
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  • Type: Town with 17,500 residents
  • Description: urban area in Kiruna Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Kirūna”, “Kiruna kommune”, and “基魯那”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Kiruna Church and Kiruna Airport.

Church
Photo: Rünno, Public domain.
is a church building in Kiruna, Sweden, and is one of Sweden's largest wooden buildings. The church was built between 1909 and 1912, designed by the architect Gustaf Wickman.

Aerodrome
Photo: Stahlkocher, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the northernmost airport in . It lies around 10 km from the old town centre of Kiruna and around 4 km from the new town centre. In 2023, the airport served 217,075 passengers. is situated 3½ km south of Kiruna.

Lake
Photo: GPSLeo, CC0.
is a lake.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tuolluvaara.

Suburb
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Kiruna

Latitude
67.8496° or 67° 50′ 59″ north
Longitude
20.3063° or 20° 18′ 23″ east
Population
17,500
Elevation
579 metres (1,900 feet)
IATA airport code
KRN
UN/LOCODE
SE KRN
Open location code
9GV2R8X4+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12245954798
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
605155
Wiki­data ID
Q83232
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Kiruna” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kiruna”
  • Arabic: “كيرونا”
  • Armenian: “Կիրունա”
  • Asturian: “Kiruna”
  • Bashkir: “Кируна”
  • Basque: “Kiruna”
  • Belarusian: “Кіруна”
  • Bengali: “কিরুনা”
  • Breton: “Kiruna”
  • Bulgarian: “Кируна”
  • Catalan: “Kiruna”
  • Cebuano: “Kiruna”
  • Chinese: “基律納”
  • Chinese: “基律纳”
  • Chuvash: “Кируна”
  • Croatian: “Kiruna”
  • Czech: “Kiruna”
  • Danish: “Kiruna”
  • Dutch: “Kiruna”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيرونا”
  • Esperanto: “Kiruna”
  • Estonian: “Kiruna”
  • Faroese: “Kiruna”
  • Finnish: “Kiiruna”
  • French: “Kiruna”
  • Galician: “Kiruna”
  • German: “Kiruna”
  • Greek: “Κίρουνα”
  • Hebrew: “קירונה”
  • Hungarian: “Kiruna”
  • Icelandic: “Kiruna”
  • Inari Sami: “Kiärun”
  • Indonesian: “Kiruna”
  • Irish: “Kiruna”
  • Italian: “Kiruna”
  • Japanese: “キルナ”
  • Kazakh: “Кируна”
  • Kildin Sami: “Ке̄рэм ланнҍ”
  • Kirghiz: “Кирүна”
  • Korean: “키루나”
  • Ladin: “Kiruna”
  • Latin: “Kiruna”
  • Latvian: “Kiruna”
  • Lithuanian: “Kiruna”
  • Macedonian: “Кируна”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kiruna”
  • Moksha: “Кируна”
  • Mongolian: “Кируна”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kiruna”
  • Northern Sami: “Giron”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiruna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kiruna”
  • Norwegian: “Kiruna”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kiruna”
  • Ossetian: “Кирунæ”
  • Persian: “کیرونا”
  • Polish: “Kiruna”
  • Portuguese: “Kiruna”
  • Romanian: “Kiruna”
  • Russian: “Кируна”
  • Scots: “Kiruna”
  • Serbian: “Кируна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kiruna”
  • Silesian: “Kiruna”
  • Slovak: “Kiruna”
  • Slovenian: “Kiruna”
  • Somali: “Kiruna”
  • Spanish: “Kiruna”
  • Swahili: “Kiruna”
  • Swedish: “Kiruna”
  • Tamil: “கிருனா”
  • Thai: “คีรือนา”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Kieruna”
  • Turkish: “Kiruna”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіруна”
  • Urdu: “کیرونا”
  • Veps: “Kirun”
  • Western Armenian: “Կիրունա”
  • Western Frisian: “Kiruna”
  • Western Mari: “Кируна”
  • Wu Chinese: “基律纳”
  • “Kiruna”

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Places to explore: Kiruna nya centrum and Glaciären.

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