Ylitornio
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Ylitornio (; ; ; ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Lapland along the Tornio River, opposite the Swedish town of Övertorneå about by road to its northwest. The two localities are connected by an international bridge that goes between Övertorneå through an island and enters Finland in a rural portion of Ylitornio's municipality, about north of town. Literally translated to English the two locations would be called Upper Tornio.
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.name
- Ylitornio
- Settlement.other_name
- ÖvertorneåBadje-DuortnusPajetuárnus
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ylitornio.kuntakilpi.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Ylitornio welcome sign
- Settlement.image_shield
- Ylitornio.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Ylitornio sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Ylitornio in Finland
- Settlement.map_caption1
- Interactive map outlining Ylitornio.
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lapland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tornio Valley
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jarmo Pienimäki
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Official name
- Ylitornion kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 3765
- Area
- 2666.7
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Torne River
- Shares border with
- Pello
- Official website
- ylitornio.fi
- Image
- Ylitornio church and bell tower by Alkkulanraitti in Ylitornio, Lapland, Finland, 2022 June.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ylitornio
- topic's main category
- Category:Ylitornio
- native label
- Övertorneå
- inception
- 1809-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Lapland
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Torne Valley Sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=976
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Climate
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Ylitornio (; ; ; ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Lapland along the Tornio River, opposite the Swedish town of Övertorneå about by road to its northwest. The two localities are connected by an international bridge that goes between Övertorneå through an island and enters Finland in a rural portion of Ylitornio's municipality, about north of town. Literally translated to English the two locations would be called Upper Tornio.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish in contrast to much of far-western Finland. Finland is officially bilingual.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ylitornio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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