Kiruna Municipality

Kiruna in is 's northernmost municipality, Kiruna kommun, with 23,000 inhabitants. The administrative centre and only urban settlement is .
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Top destinations include Kiruna and Abisko and Björkliden.

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in is 's northernmost city and home to 18,000 citizens. It is the centre of Municipality, kommun, which also includes several small villages, resorts and settlements scattered around a large wilderness area.

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Abisko is a village in and the Lappland province in northern . Abisko nationalpark is a national park around Abisko, 77 km2. Björkliden is a resort village 7 km northwest of Abisko.

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is the northernmost village in , in the municipality of Kiruna. Across the Muoniojoki river is the Finnish half of the village, .

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is a town of around 600 citizens in Kiruna Municipality in northern . While the town has been a meeting point for the Sami, Finnish and Swedish cultures since the 17th century, it is today best known for the Ice Hotel.

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is a ski resort 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, in municipality. Located right at the border with , the name literally means "The National Border".

Kiruna Municipality

Latitude of center
68.1701° or 68° 10′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
20.5486° or 20° 32′ 55″ east
Population
22,500
Elevation
521 metres (1,709 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2700801
Wiki­data ID
Q499474
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Kiruna Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدية كيرونا”
  • Armenian: “Կիրունա”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Kiruna (Suecia)”
  • Asturian: “Kiruna kommun”
  • Asturian: “Kiruna”
  • Bashkir: “Кируна (коммуна)”
  • Bashkir: “Кируна”
  • Basque: “Kiruna udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Кіруна”
  • Bulgarian: “Кируна”
  • Catalan: “municipi de Kiruna”
  • Catalan: “Municipi de Kiruna”
  • Cebuano: “Kiruna Kommun”
  • Chinese: “Kiruna Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “基律納市鎮”
  • Chinese: “基律纳市镇”
  • Czech: “Kiruna (obec)”
  • Czech: “Kiruna”
  • Danish: “Kiruna kommun”
  • Danish: “Kiruna kommune”
  • Danish: “Kiruna Kommune”
  • Dutch: “Kiruna”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيرونا (بلديه)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيرونا”
  • Esperanto: “Kiruna kommun”
  • Esperanto: “Kiruna”
  • Esperanto: “komunumo Kiruna”
  • Esperanto: “Komunumo Kiruna”
  • Estonian: “Kiruna vald”
  • Faroese: “Kiruna kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Kiiruna”
  • Finnish: “Kiirunan kunta”
  • Finnish: “Kiirunan Kunta”
  • Finnish: “Kiruna kommun”
  • Finnish: “Kiruna”
  • Finnish: “Kirunan kunta”
  • Finnish: “Kirunas kommun”
  • French: “Commune de Kiruna”
  • French: “Kiruna”
  • Galician: “Concello de Kiruna”
  • Galician: “Kiruna”
  • German: “Gemeinde Kiruna”
  • German: “Kiruna”
  • Hungarian: “Kiruna község”
  • Igbo: “Kiruna kommun”
  • Igbo: “Kiruna Municipality”
  • Indonesian: “Municipality Kiruna”
  • Italian: “Kiruna”
  • Italian: “Municipalità di Kiruna”
  • Japanese: “キルナ市”
  • Kildin Sami: “Ке̄рэм коннҍт”
  • Korean: “키루나시”
  • Ladin: “Kiruna”
  • Limburgan: “Kiruna”
  • Lithuanian: “Kiruna”
  • Lombard: “Kiruna”
  • Low German: “Kommun Kiruna”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kiruna Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Кируна (коммунась)”
  • Moksha: “Кируна”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kiruna (Komuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kiruna”
  • Northern Sami: “Giron Gielda”
  • Northern Sami: “Giron”
  • Northern Sami: “Girona gielda”
  • Northern Sami: “Kiruna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Giron”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiiruna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiruna kommun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiruna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kiruna kommun”
  • Norwegian: “Kiruna kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Kiruna”
  • Persian: “بخش کیرونا”
  • Persian: “شهرداری کیرونا”
  • Polish: “Gmina Kiruna”
  • Portuguese: “Kiruna”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Kiruna”
  • Russian: “Кируна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kiruna”
  • Slovenian: “Kiruna kommun”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Kiruna”
  • Spanish: “Kiruna”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Kiruna”
  • Swedish: “Kiruna kommun”
  • Swedish: “Kirunas kommun”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Kirunan Kunta”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіруна”
  • Vietnamese: “Kiruna”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Kiruna”
  • Western Frisian: “Kiruna (gemeente)”
  • Western Frisian: “Kiruna”

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