Norrland
Norrbotten County
Luleå Municipality

Luleå

Luleå, also called Lule, is the seat of in northern . The city lies at the mouth of the Lule River, in the north-west corner of the Gulf of Bothnia. It has about 70,000 inhabitants, a technical university, and a steel mill.
Tap on a place
to explore it
lulea.se
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: City with 73,900 residents
  • Description: urban area in Luleå Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Lule” and “Luulaja”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Luleå Cathedral and Luleå Central Station.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
in Luleå, Sweden, serves the Diocese of Luleå and the local Church of Sweden parish, Parish.

Railway station
Photo: My another account, CC0.
or Luleå C is a railway station located on the Main Line Through Upper Norrland in Luleå, . The station is owned by Jernhusen and is the terminal of the line.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an indoor sporting arena located in Luleå, . The seating capacity of the arena is 6,150, and it is the home arena of the Luleå HF ice hockey team.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bergnäset and Karlsvik.

Suburb
Photo: Pihlbaoge, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a locality situated in , , with 3,648 inhabitants in 2010.

Village
Photo: Wcis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a locality situated in , , with 256 inhabitants in 2010.

Suburb
Photo: Tortap, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a residential area in Luleå, . It had 1,226 inhabitants in 2010.

Luleå

Latitude
65.5831° or 65° 34′ 59″ north
Longitude
22.146° or 22° 8′ 45″ east
Population
73,900
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
LLA
United Nations Location Code
SE LLA
Open location code
9GQ4H4MW+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27559814
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
604490
Wiki­data ID
Q26268
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Luleå from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Luleå” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Luleå”
  • Arabic: “لوليو”
  • Aragonese: “Luleå”
  • Armenian: “Լուելո”
  • Armenian: “Լուլեո”
  • Asturian: “Luleå”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luleo”
  • Basque: “Luleå”
  • Belarusian: “Лулеа”
  • Belarusian: “Люлеа”
  • Bengali: “লুলেও”
  • Breton: “Luleå”
  • Bulgarian: “Лулео”
  • Bulgarian: “Люлео”
  • Catalan: “Lulea”
  • Catalan: “Luleå”
  • Cebuano: “Luleå (kapital sa lalawigan sa Suwesya)”
  • Cebuano: “Luleå”
  • Chechen: “Лулео”
  • Chinese: “Luleå”
  • Chinese: “吕勒奥”
  • Chinese: “呂勒奧”
  • Cornish: “Luleå”
  • Croatian: “Luleå”
  • Czech: “Luleå”
  • Danish: “Luleå”
  • Dutch: “Lulea”
  • Dutch: “Luleå”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوليو”
  • Esperanto: “Luleå”
  • Esperanto: “Luleo”
  • Estonian: “Lulea”
  • Estonian: “Luleå”
  • Faroese: “Luleå”
  • Finnish: “Luleå”
  • Finnish: “Luulaja”
  • French: “Lulea”
  • French: “Luleå”
  • Galician: “Luleå”
  • Georgian: “ლულეო”
  • German: “Lulea”
  • German: “Luleå”
  • German: “Luleaa”
  • Greek: “Λουλέο”
  • Gujarati: “લુલિયા”
  • Hebrew: “לולאו”
  • Hebrew: “לוליה”
  • Hindi: “लुलेया”
  • Hungarian: “Luleå”
  • Icelandic: “Luleå”
  • Indonesian: “Lulea”
  • Indonesian: “Luleå”
  • Irish: “Luleå”
  • Italian: “Lulea”
  • Italian: “Luleå”
  • Japanese: “ルーレオ”
  • Japanese: “ルレオ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Luleå”
  • Kannada: “ಲುಲಿಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Лулео қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Лулео”
  • Korean: “룰레오”
  • Kurdish: “Luleå”
  • Ladin: “Luleå”
  • Latin: “Lula”
  • Latvian: “Luleo‎”
  • Latvian: “Lūleo‎”
  • Latvian: “Lūleo”
  • Lithuanian: “Liuleo”
  • Lithuanian: “Lulėjas”
  • Lule Sami: “Julevu”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Luleå”
  • Macedonian: “Лулео”
  • Malay: “Lulea”
  • Malay: “Luleå”
  • Maori: “Luleå”
  • Marathi: “लुलिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Luleå”
  • Minangkabau: “Luleå”
  • Northern Frisian: “Luleå”
  • Northern Sami: “Luleju”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Luleå”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luleå”
  • Norwegian: “Luleå”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Luleå”
  • Ossetian: “Лулео”
  • Persian: “لولئا”
  • Persian: “لولئو”
  • Polish: “Lulea”
  • Polish: “Luleå”
  • Portuguese: “Lulea”
  • Portuguese: “Luleå”
  • Romanian: “Luleå”
  • Russian: “Лулео”
  • Scots: “Luleå”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Luleå”
  • Serbian: “Лулео”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Luleå”
  • Silesian: “Luleå”
  • Sindhi: “لوليو”
  • Sinhala: “ලලියා”
  • Slovak: “Luleå”
  • Slovenian: “Luleå”
  • Spanish: “Lulea”
  • Spanish: “Luleá”
  • Spanish: “Luleå”
  • Swahili: “Lulea”
  • Swahili: “Luleå”
  • Swedish: “Lule”
  • Swedish: “Luleå”
  • Swedish: “Luulaja”
  • Tamil: “லூலியா”
  • Tatar: “Лулео”
  • Telugu: “ల్యువిలో”
  • Thai: “ลือลิยอ”
  • Turkish: “Lulea”
  • Turkish: “Luleå”
  • Ukrainian: “Лулео”
  • Ume Sami: “Lüvllege”
  • Urdu: “لولیو”
  • Vietnamese: “Lulea”
  • Vietnamese: “Luleå”
  • Volapük: “Luleå”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Luleå”
  • Welsh: “Luleå”
  • Western Frisian: “Luleå”
  • Western Mari: “Лулео”
  • Western Panjabi: “للیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “吕勒奥”
  • “Luleå”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Luleå”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Södra hamn and Varvet.

Norrbotten County: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Kiruna, Piteå, Haparanda, and Boden.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
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 “Luleå”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.