Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County, Norrbottens län, is the northernmost part of , . Bordering to and it covers 100,000 square kilometres, from the tall mountains in the west to the coast and archipelagoes in the east.
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Top destinations: Luleå and Kiruna.

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, also called Lule, is the seat of Norrbotten County 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.

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

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is a locality and the seat of in Norrbotten County, Sweden. is Sweden's 58th largest city, with a population of 23,326.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Kiruna Municipality and Kebnekaise.

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Kiruna in Norrbotten County is 's northernmost municipality, Kiruna kommun, with 23,000 inhabitants. The administrative centre and only urban settlement is .

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is the tallest mountain in , at 2,093 metres above sea level. It is in in Norrbotten County. Nikkaluokta is the only settlement in the area, at the border of the and Kiruna municipalities.

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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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is a town of around 28 000 inhabitants located along the Lule River in Norrbotten County, 35 kilometres north-west of .

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, Sami Váhčir, is a mining town in Norrbotten County in northern , and an important railway junction as the ending point of Inlandsbanan and an important stop on the Malmbanan railway to .

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is a town in Swedish Lappland, in the middle of Norrbotten County. Municipality, is one of Sweden's largest, containing a land area of 18,000 km² but no more than 5,000 inhabitants.

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is a national park system of 9,400 km2 and a UNESCO World Heritage site in Norrbotten County, in the Lappland province in northern Sweden.

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is a small town in Norrbotten County in Sweden. Known as a winter test environment used by car manufacturers, the town is also a magnet for a variety of winter outdoor sports.

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is a locality and the seat of in Norrbotten County, with 1,917 inhabitants in 2010. It is located at the shore of the Torne River, opposite to their Finnish twin town .

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is a locality and the seat of in Norrbotten County, with 4,967 inhabitants in 2010. It is known as "The Pearl of Norrbotten".

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is a small town in Tornedalen in the province of Norrbotten in , , by the Finnish border.

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Pieljekaise is a . It lies about 10 km south of in , Lappland. The park covers an area of 153.4 km2. It consists largely of birch woods.

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is a village in the municipality of . It is known as trailhead for Padjelantaleden and hiking trails through , and for the delta of the rivers Gamájåhkå and Darreädno.

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is a Sami settlement in Norrbotten County, , in the north-west end of the national park system. itself is in municipality, at the northern shore of the lake Áhkájávrre.

Norrbotten County

  • Type: county of Sweden with 195,000 residents
  • Description: county (län) in Sweden
  • Also known as: “Botnie-du-Nord”, “Comte de Norrbotten”, “Département de Norrbotten”, “Distrito de Norrbotten”, “Hạt Norrbotten”, “Norbotena”, “Norbotenas lēnis”, “Norbotene”, “Norbottens lan”, “Norrbotten”, “Norrbotten län”, “Norrbottens”, “Norrbottens lan”, “Norrbottens Län”, “Norrbottens leatna”, “North Bothnia”, “Okrožje Norrbotten”, “Pohjoispohja”, “Pohjoispohjan lääni”, “SE-BD”, “Лен Норботтен”, “лен Норботэн”, “Лен Норрботтен”, “Нарботэн (лен)”, “Норбатэн”, “Норботэн”, “Норботэн (лен)”, “Округ Норботен”, “провинция Норботен”, “Северноботнијски округ”, “Севернонорски округ”, and “नॉरबोटन काउंटी”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
67° north
Longitude of center
20° east
Population
195,000
Elevation
412 metres (1,352 feet)
Geo­Names ID
604010
Wiki­data ID
Q103686
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Norrbotten County” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “qarku i Norbotenit”
  • Amharic: “ኖርቦቴን”
  • Arabic: “محافظة نوربوتن”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة نوربوتن”
  • Aragonese: “Condau de Norrbotten”
  • Armenian: “Նորրբոտտեն”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Norrbotten”
  • Azerbaijani: “Norrbotten”
  • Balinese: “County Norrbotten”
  • Basque: “Norrbottengo konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Belarusian: “лен Нарботэн”
  • Belarusian: “Нарботэн”
  • Bengali: “নরব্রোটন কাউন্টি”
  • Bosnian: “Kotar Norrbotten”
  • Bosnian: “Okrug Norrbotten”
  • Bulgarian: “Норботен”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Norrbotten”
  • Cebuano: “Norrbottens län”
  • Chinese: “北博滕省”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Norrbotten”
  • Croatian: “Županija Norrbotten”
  • Czech: “Norrbotten”
  • Danish: “Norrbottens län”
  • Dutch: “Norrbottens län”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة نوربوتتين”
  • Esperanto: “Norrbottens län”
  • Estonian: “Norrbotteni lään”
  • Faroese: “Norrbottens län”
  • Finnish: “Norrbottenin lääni”
  • French: “Botnie du nord”
  • French: “Comté de Norbotten”
  • French: “Comté de Norrbotten”
  • French: “Norbotten”
  • French: “Norrbotten”
  • Galician: “Condado de Norrbotten”
  • German: “Norrbottens län”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Νορμπότεν”
  • Greek: “Νορμπότεν”
  • Gujarati: “નોર્બોટન કાઉન્ટી”
  • Hausa: “Norrbotten”
  • Hebrew: “נורבוטן”
  • Hindi: “नॉरबॉत्तेन लैन”
  • Hungarian: “Norrbotten megye”
  • Ido: “Komtio Norrbotten”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Norrbotten”
  • Irish: “Norrbottens län”
  • Italian: “Contea di Norrbotten”
  • Italian: “Norrbotten”
  • Japanese: “ノールボッテン県”
  • Javanese: “Norrbotten”
  • Kannada: “ನಾರ್ಬರ್ಟೌನ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Норботтен”
  • Kildin Sami: “Норрботтэн”
  • Kirghiz: “Норботтен”
  • Kirghiz: “Норрботтен лени”
  • Korean: “노르보텐주”
  • Kurdish: “Norrbotten (län)”
  • Kurdish: “Norrbotten”
  • Ladin: “Contea de Norrbotten”
  • Latin: “Botnia septentrionalis”
  • Latin: “Botniae Septentrionalis Comitatus”
  • Latvian: “Norbotenas lēne”
  • Limburgan: “Norrbottens län”
  • Lithuanian: “Norbotenas”
  • Lombard: “contea de Norrbotten”
  • Lombard: “Contea de Norrbotten”
  • Low German: “Lehn Norrbotten”
  • Luxembourgish: “Norrbotten”
  • Macedonian: “Норботен”
  • Malay: “Daerah Norrbotten”
  • Maltese: “Norrbottens län”
  • Marathi: “नॉर्बॉटेन काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “وسترنورلاند اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Norrbotten Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Norrbotten Kōan”
  • Mingrelian: “ნორბოტენი (ლენი)”
  • Mingrelian: “ნორბოტენი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Norrbotten”
  • Northern Sami: “Norrbottena leatna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Norrbottens län”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norrbottens län”
  • Norwegian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Oromo: “Norrbotten”
  • Ossetian: “Норрботтен”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੋਰਬੋਟਨ”
  • Persian: “استان نوربوتن”
  • Persian: “شهرستان نوربوتن”
  • Polish: “Norrbotten”
  • Portuguese: “Norrbotten”
  • Pushto: “نوربوتن”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Norrbotten”
  • Romanian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Russian: “Норрботтен”
  • Rusyn: “Край Норботтен”
  • Scots: “Norrbotten Coonty”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Norrbottens län”
  • Serbian: “Nurboten”
  • Serbian: “Нурботен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Norrbotten”
  • Sinhala: “නොර්බෝටෙන් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Norrbottens län”
  • Slovenian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Slovenian: “Norrbottensko okrožje”
  • Somali: “Norrbotten”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Norbotnia”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Norrbotten”
  • Swahili: “Norrbottens län”
  • Swedish: “Norrbottens län”
  • Swiss German: “Norrbottens län”
  • Tajik: “Норботтен”
  • Tamil: “நோற்றபோட்டேன் கவுண்டி”
  • Tatar: “Норботтен”
  • Telugu: “నార్బోటెన్ కౌంటీ”
  • Thai: “เทศมณฑลนอร์บ็อตเติน”
  • Turkish: “Norrbotten ili”
  • Turkish: “Norrbotten”
  • Ukrainian: “Норрботтен”
  • Urdu: “نوربوتن کاؤنٹی”
  • Uzbek: “Norrbotten”
  • Venetian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Vietnamese: “Norrbotten”
  • Vlaams: “Norrbottens län”
  • Volapük: “Nolüda-Botniän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Norrbotten”
  • Welsh: “Sir Norrbotten”
  • Western Frisian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Western Panjabi: “نوربوٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “北博滕省”
  • “SE332”

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