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Kiruna

Kiruna is the most nordic city of Sweden. Located in the Swedish Lapland, it covers 20000 km Â², that is to say half of the size of Switzerland. The city is built around the iron mine and counts approximately 20000 inhabitants. Kiruna is thus located at the north of the polar circle. One can admire there the midnight sun in summer and the polar aurora in winter. The winter is very long there: it lasts from October at May.

Kiruna grew thanks to the construction of the largest underground iron mine in the world. Today, research stations also settled there. Kiruna is also the seat of the Parliament of the Swedish SAMES. The SAMES are nomads installed in the North of Scandinavia. They live traditionally of the breeding of reindeers.

The surrounding landscape is rather flat while going towards the east, but mountainous towards the west with the top of Sweden: Kebnekaise which culminates to 2117 m. Thousands lakes and rivers strew an austere ground covered with rachitics birches and sometimes only with foams. Kiruna is one of the rare places in Europe where one can still find a nature in a wild state.

	Kiruna Train station The train station of Kiruna. Daily trains connect it to Stockholm and the remainder of Sweden.
	Fountain A fountain in the center of Kiruna.
	Kiruna The commercial street of Kiruna.
	Kiruna Town hall The town hall (stadhus) of Kiruna.
	Street Just a street.
	Old fire station The old fire station of Kiruna which is now used as the house of the TV for regional program SVT Nordnytt.
	Graduates Graduates ravelling in the street to celebrate the end of the exams.
	Graduates Graduates ravelling in the street to celebrate the end of the exams.
	Bell-tower The bell-tower of the church of Kiruna.
	Church of Kiruna Back of the church of Kiruna.
	Church of Kiruna The front of the church of Kiruna.
	Monument A monument on the side of the church.
	Church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi The entry of the church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi, a village in the North-East of Kiruna.
	Church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi The Church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi
	Church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi The entry of the church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi.
	Church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi Interior of the church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi.
	Church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi Interior of the church of JukkasjÃ¤rvi.
	Ice hotel of JukkasjÃ¤rvi The rests of the famous ice hotel ice also in JukkasjÃ¤rvi in Juneâ€¦ It is rebuilt every year.
	Floating house A house which floats on water
	Kirunavaara A sight of the iron ore seam in the Kirunavaara mountain. It corresponds to the hole in the hill. At the beginning, the extraction was done on the surface. Now, the galleries go down to approximately 2000 m under ground for an overall length of more than 400km.
	Kiruna Overall picture of Kiruna.
	Iron mine of Kiruna Kiruna in the foreground and the mine behind.
	Wind mills Wind mills. One can see the Kebnekaise which is stille cover by snow in June.
	Scandinavian landscape Scandinavian landscape with lakes and forests.
	Landscape The landscape around Kiruna.
	Space center of Esrange The rocket at the entry of the space center of Esrange.