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Kiruna

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Norrbotten County, Sweden
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About Kiruna

Kiruna is the northernmost metropolis in Sweden, located inside the province of Lapland. It had 17,002 population in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality in Norrbotten County. Esrange Space Center became hooked up in Kiruna within the Sixties. Also in Kiruna are the Institute of Space Physics and Lulea University of Technology's Department of Space Science. Archeological findings have shown that the place around Kiruna has been inhabited for at the least 6,000 years.

Centuries earlier than Kiruna changed into founded in 1900, the presence of iron ore at Kiirunavaara and Luossavaara had been recognized via the neighborhood Sami populace. In 1696, Samuel Mort, a bookkeeper of the Kengis works, wrote at the presence of iron in the hills. The Swedish senior enforcement officer and cartographer and mapper Anders Hackzell mapped the Kiruna place in 1736 and gave the mountains of the place their Swedish language names Fredriks berg original Finnish call nevertheless in use as nicely: Kiirunavaara and Berget Ulrika Eleonora original Finnish name still in use as nicely: Luossavaara, after the King of Sweden Fredrik I and his wife Ulrika Eleonora.

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