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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include 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.

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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 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 locality and the seat of in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, with 4,635 inhabitants in 2010. is a center for the European car industry.

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

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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 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.

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is a small village in Norrbotten County in northern , in the municipality of . It has train connections from the coast, from southern Sweden and from Narvik in Norway, and is thus a transportation hub.

Norrbotten County

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”
  • Arabic: “محافظة نوربوتن”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة نوربوتن”
  • Arabic: “نوربوتن”
  • Aragonese: “Condau de Norrbotten”
  • Armenian: “Նորրբոտտեն”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Norrbotten”
  • Balinese: “County Norrbotten”
  • Basque: “Norrbottengo konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Belarusian: “лен Нарботэн”
  • Belarusian: “лен Норботэн”
  • Belarusian: “Нарботэн (лен)”
  • Belarusian: “Нарботэн”
  • Belarusian: “Норбатэн”
  • Belarusian: “Норботэн (лен)”
  • Belarusian: “Норботэн”
  • Bengali: “নরব্রোটন কাউন্টি”
  • Bosnian: “Kotar Norrbotten”
  • Bosnian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Bosnian: “Okrug Norrbotten”
  • Bulgarian: “Норботен”
  • Bulgarian: “провинция Норботен”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Norrbotten”
  • Catalan: “Norrbotten”
  • Cebuano: “Norrbottens län”
  • Chinese: “Norrbotten Koān”
  • Chinese: “北博滕省”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Norrbotten”
  • Croatian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Croatian: “Županija Norrbotten”
  • Czech: “Norrbotten”
  • Danish: “Norrbottens län”
  • Dutch: “Norrbotten”
  • Dutch: “Norrbottens lan”
  • Dutch: “Norrbottens län”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة نوربوتتين”
  • Esperanto: “Norrbottens län”
  • Estonian: “Norrbotteni lään”
  • Faroese: “Norrbottens län”
  • Finnish: “Norrbottenin lääni”
  • Finnish: “Norrbottens län”
  • Finnish: “Pohjoispohja”
  • Finnish: “Pohjoispohjan lääni”
  • French: “Botnie du nord”
  • French: “Botnie-du-Nord”
  • French: “Comté de Norbotten”
  • French: “Comte de Norrbotten”
  • French: “Comté de Norrbotten”
  • French: “Département de Norrbotten”
  • French: “Norbotten”
  • French: “Norrbotten”
  • Galician: “Condado de Norrbotten”
  • Galician: “Norrbotten”
  • German: “Norrbottens län”
  • German: “SE-BD”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Νορμπότεν”
  • Greek: “Νορμπότεν”
  • Gujarati: “નોર્બોટન કાઉન્ટી”
  • Hebrew: “נורבוטן”
  • Hindi: “नॉरबॉत्तेन लैन”
  • Hindi: “नॉरबोटन काउंटी”
  • Hungarian: “Norrbotten megye”
  • Ido: “Komtio Norrbotten”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Norrbotten”
  • Indonesian: “Norrbotten”
  • Indonesian: “Norrbottens lan”
  • Indonesian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Irish: “Norrbottens län”
  • Italian: “Contea di Norrbotten”
  • Italian: “Norrbotten”
  • Japanese: “ノールボッテン県”
  • Kannada: “ನಾರ್ಬರ್ಟೌನ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
  • Korean: “노르보텐주”
  • Kurdish: “Norrbotten (län)”
  • Kurdish: “Norrbotten”
  • Ladin: “Contea de Norrbotten”
  • Latin: “Botnia septentrionalis”
  • Latin: “Botniae Septentrionalis Comitatus”
  • Latvian: “Norbotena”
  • Latvian: “Norbotenas lēne”
  • Latvian: “Norbotenas lēnis”
  • Latvian: “Norbotene”
  • Limburgan: “Norrbottens län”
  • Lithuanian: “Norbotenas”
  • Lombard: “contea de Norrbotten”
  • Lombard: “Contea de Norrbotten”
  • Low German: “Lehn Norrbotten”
  • Macedonian: “Норботен”
  • Macedonian: “Округ Норботен”
  • Malay: “Daerah Norrbotten”
  • Maltese: “Norrbottens län”
  • Marathi: “नॉर्बॉटेन काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “وسترنورلاند اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Norrbotten Kōan”
  • Mingrelian: “ნორბოტენი (ლენი)”
  • Mingrelian: “ნორბოტენი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Norrbotten”
  • Northern Sami: “Norrbottena leatna”
  • Northern Sami: “Norrbottens leatna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Norrbottens län”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norrbotten län”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norrbottens län”
  • Norwegian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Ossetian: “Норрботтен”
  • Persian: “استان نوربوتن”
  • Persian: “شهرستان نوربوتن”
  • Polish: “Norrbotten”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Norrbotten”
  • Portuguese: “Distrito de Norrbotten”
  • Portuguese: “Norrbotten”
  • Portuguese: “Norrbottens”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Norrbotten”
  • Romanian: “Norrbottens lan”
  • Romanian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Russian: “Лен Норботтен”
  • Russian: “Лен Норрботтен”
  • Russian: “Норрботтен”
  • Rusyn: “Край Норботтен”
  • Scots: “Norrbotten Coonty”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Norrbottens län”
  • Serbian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Serbian: “Nurboten”
  • Serbian: “Норботен”
  • Serbian: “Нурботен”
  • Serbian: “Северноботнијски округ”
  • Serbian: “Севернонорски округ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Norrbotten”
  • Sinhala: “නොර්බෝටෙන් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Norrbottens län”
  • Slovenian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Slovenian: “Norrbottensko okrožje”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Norrbotten”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Norrbotten”
  • Spanish: “Norrbottens lan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Norbotnia”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Norrbotten”
  • Swahili: “Norrbottens län”
  • Swedish: “Norrbottens län”
  • Swedish: “SE-BD”
  • Swiss German: “Norrbottens län”
  • Tamil: “நோற்றபோட்டேன் கவுண்டி”
  • Telugu: “నార్బోటెన్ కౌంటీ”
  • Thai: “เทศมณฑลนอร์บ็อตเติน”
  • Turkish: “Norbottens lan”
  • Turkish: “Norrbotten ili”
  • Turkish: “Norrbotten”
  • Turkish: “Norrbottens lan”
  • Turkish: “Norrbottens län”
  • Ukrainian: “Норрботтен”
  • Urdu: “نوربوتن کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “Norrbottens län”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạt Norrbotten”
  • 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”

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