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Tornio
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Tornio (; ; ; ) is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side. The municipality covers an area of , of which is water. The population density is , with a total population of ().
Tornio is a city in Finland's northernmost region, Lapland, that sits right on the border with Sweden and shares a close relationship with the Swedish town of Haparanda as a twin city. The area is notable for its sparse population spread across a large territory that includes significant water coverage.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tornio
- Settlement.other_name
- TorneåDuortnusTuárnus
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tornio Hallituskatu.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Central Tornio
- Settlement.image_shield
- Tornio.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Tornio sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Tornio in Finland
- Settlement.map_caption1
- Interactive map outlining Tornio.
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lapland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kemi-Tornio
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jukka Kujala
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Torneå stad
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 21018
- Area
- 39.16
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Bothnian Bay
- Shares border with
- Ylitornio
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- www.tornio.fi
- Image
- View from Suensaari water tower Tornio 20150806 02.JPG
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- Commons category
- Tornio
- topic's main category
- Category:Tornio
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Tornio
- associated electoral district
- Lapland
- inception
- 1621-01-01
- native label
- Torneå
- P8168
- Léon Daudet
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Kemi-Tornio sub-region
- replaces
- Karunki
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=851
- P12749
- Western Australia
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Notable people
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Gallery
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- References
- External links
Tornio (; ; ; ) is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side. The municipality covers an area of , of which is water. The population density is , with a total population of ().
Tornio is unilingually Finnish with a negligible number of native Swedish speakers, although this does not count vast numbers of bilinguals who speak Swedish as a second language, with an official target of universal working bilingualism for both border municipalities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tornio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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