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Haparanda Municipality (Swedish: Haparanda kommun), (Finnish: Haaparannan kunta) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Haparanda (Finnish: Haaparanta).

Haparanda Municipality Haparanda kommun
Municipality
Haparanda Hotel to the left, and the City Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 65°50′N 24°08′E
Country	Sweden
County	Norrbotten County
Seat	Haparanda
Area [1]
• Total	1,868.27 km2 (721.34 sq mi)
• Land	922.76 km2 (356.28 sq mi)
• Water	945.51 km2 (365.06 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2021)[2]
• Total	9,496
• Density	5.1/km2 (13/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Norrbotten
Municipal code	2583
Website	www.haparanda.se

In 1967 the "City of Haparanda" was merged with the rural municipalities Karl Gustav and Nedertorneå. Since 1971 Haparanda, like all other municipalities of Sweden, is a municipality of unitary type. However, it prefers to use the title stad ("city") for the whole territory, including the non-urban parts.

Geography

In Sweden, Haparanda Municipality borders Övertorneå Municipality to the north and Kalix Municipality to the west.

Haparanda Municipality is located on the western side of where the Torne River discharges into the Bay of Bothnia. On the other side of the river lies the Finnish town Tornio (Swedish: Torneå). Haparanda and Tornio jointly call themselves "EuroCity".

Although Haparanda has a boat harbor, it is not accessible for larger vessels and is not, as often thought, the Baltic Sea's northernmost port, that honor most probably belonging to Töre further west on the Swedish coast.

The municipality includes the Haparanda archipelago, with 652 islands in the bay of Bothnia, part of the larger Norrbotten archipelago.[3] The Haparanda Archipelago National Park lies within the Haparanda group of islands. It includes the larger islands of Sandskär and Seskar Furö, and some smaller islands and skerries.[4] Some of the other islands in the Haparanda archipelago include Hanhinkari, Kataja, Seskarö, Skomakaren, Stora Hamnskär, Stora Hepokari and Torne-Furö.[5]

Localities

There are five localities (or urban areas) in Haparanda Municipality:[6]

#	Locality	Population
1	Haparanda	4,778
2	Marielund	1,865
3	Seskarö	498
4	Nikkala	447
5	Karungi	232

The municipal seat in bold

Politics and government

Distribution of the 35 seats in the municipal council after the 2010 election:

• Social Democratic Party 21
• Moderate Party 6
• Centre Party 4
• Left Party 3
• Christian Democrats 1

Results of the 2010 Swedish general election in Haparanda:

• Social Democratic Party 60.4%
• Moderate Party 17.2%
• Centre Party 7.3%
• Left Party 4.3%
• Sweden Democrats 3.8%
• Christian Democrats 2.6%
• Green Party 2.3%
• Liberal People's Party 1.5%

Twin towns – sister cities

Haparanda is twinned with:

• Hammerfest, Norway
• Kovdor, Russia
• Širvintos, Lithuania

See also

• Sweden Finns
• Meänkieli
• List of islands of the Haparanda archipelago

References

External links

• Haparanda Municipality - Official site
• Haparanda-Tornio - Official tourism site

На других языках

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[de] Haparanda (Gemeinde)

65.833324.1333 Haparanda ist eine Gemeinde in der nordschwedischen Provinz Norrbottens län und der historischen Provinz Norrbotten.

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- [en] Haparanda Municipality

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[ru] Хапаранда (коммуна)

Хапаранда (швед. Haparanda kommun) — коммуна на севере Швеции, в лене Норрботтен. Административный центр — одноимённый город. Площадь — 961,5 км². Население по данным на 2012 год составляет 10 007 человек[1]. Коммуна расположена западнее нижнего течения реки Турнеэльвен, у впадения её в Ботнический залив. По реке проходит граница с Финляндией, столица коммуны практически образует один город с городом Торнио на другом берегу. В Швеции Хапаранда граничит с коммунами Эвертурнео (на севере) и Каликс (на западе). Упоминается в рекламе IKEA.

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