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 Læstadiuspörtet and Pajala Church.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a in the form of a cottage built of red timber located in , Sweden. was the home of the Swedish Lutheran pastor of Sámi descent and founder of Laestadianism, Lars Levi Laestadius, from 1851 until his death here in 1861, and now serves as the Laestadius Museum.

Church
Photo: Iin208, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Pajala”
  • Ukrainian: “Паяла”
  • Urdu: “پاجالا”
  • Western Frisian: “Pajala”
  • “Pajala”

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