Norrland
Norrbotten County
Pajala Municipality

Pajala

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

Highlights include Pajala Church.

Church
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Pajala

Latitude
67.209° or 67° 12′ 33″ north
Longitude
23.3647° or 23° 21′ 53″ east
Population
1,960
Elevation
173 metres (568 feet)
Inception
<1885
IATA airport code
PJA
United Nations Location Code
SE PJA
Open location code
9GV56957+JV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1678134048
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
603761
Wiki­data ID
Q977248
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Pajala” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Pajala”
  • Arabic: “بايالا”
  • Bulgarian: “Паяла”
  • Cebuano: “Pajala (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Pajala”
  • Chinese: “Pajala”
  • Chinese: “帕亚拉”
  • Chinese: “帕亞拉”
  • Danish: “Pajala”
  • Dutch: “Pajala”
  • Faroese: “Pajala”
  • Finnish: “Pajala”
  • French: “Pajala”
  • German: “Pajala”
  • Icelandic: “Pajala”
  • Irish: “Pajala”
  • Italian: “Pajala”
  • Japanese: “パヤラ”
  • Ladin: “Pajala”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pajala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pajala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pajala”
  • Norwegian: “Pajala”
  • Persian: “پایالا”
  • Polish: “Pajala”
  • Portuguese: “Pajala”
  • Romanian: “Pajala”
  • Russian: “Пайала”
  • Russian: “Паяла”
  • Spanish: “Pajala”
  • Swedish: “Pajala”
  • Swedish: “Vittula”
  • Ukrainian: “Паяла”
  • Western Frisian: “Pajala”
  • “Pajala”

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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 “Pajala”. Photo: Mestos, CC BY-SA 3.0.