Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi is a metropolis in Finland and the capital of the former Lapland County, positioned near the Arctic Circle at the junction of the River Kemijoki and Ounasjoki within the Province of Lapland. It is a provincial center, a university town and middle for trade, management and schooling in its region, as well as a sports and cultural town. Rovaniemi became separated from the Rovaniemi rural municipality in 1929 and in 1960 the Rovaniemi store have become one of the first 6 so referred to as new cities in Finland.

Rovaniemi, united with Rovaniemi rural network at the start of 2006, is Finland's seventeenth biggest metropolis in phrases of populace, however Finland and Europe's biggest vicinity. The town is likewise the second one biggest city in Northern Finland with its population after Oulu. Rovaniemi has been the northernmost city in Finland since the municipal union in 2006, where Rovaniemi was joined via the rural municipality of Rovaniemi. The records of Rovaniemi settlement dates again to the Stone Age 8,000 years.