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Heinola is a town and the seat of the local municipality in the Päijät-Häme Region in southern Finland. It lies just a short drive north of the region’s capital Lahti. This is a unilingual part of Finland, with Finnish as the main language. Around 14.000 of the municipality’s 18.300 inhabitants live in the town. The…
Raahe is a town along the western coast of Finland, in the region of North Ostrobothnia. The town is also known by its Swedish name, Brahestad, from its founder – the Swedish statement and Governor General of Finland, Count Per Brahe the Younger. It is known for being one of only 10 remaining wooden towns…
The village of Nuorgam lies in the far north of Finland, far within the Arctic Circle. Well, this is as far north as you will be able to go in Finland. The village is at the northernmost point of Finland, which also makes it the northernmost village in the European Union. Just on the other…
Muodoslompolo is a small settlement in the province of Norrbotten, the far north of Sweden. It is a part of Pajala Municipality, but its population has decreased below 50 people, resulting in no official number of inhabitants. Today there is the white wooden church that watches over the few remaining inhabitants. The settlement lies just…
Varkaus is an industrial town in Northern Savonia in eastern Finland. This is a town that has developed in the vicinity of the paper mills. The town is the seat of the local municipality, a municipality with a population of around 19.700 inhabitants. About 18.300 of the inhabitants live in the town itself. The municipality…
Niskanpää is a small settlement on the western shores of the Torne River, the river marking the border between Sweden and Finland. Here in the far north of Sweden, in the province of Norrbotten, the summer nights are almost never-ending and the winter nights are almost completely dark. The settlement is just a few kilometers…
Verona, the home of Romeo and Juliet, is a city in northern Italy. It is located in Veneto, right between the major cities of Milan and Venice, and with the famous Lake Garda just a short distance away. The city has a population of around 258.000 inhabitants. This is a city with a prosperous history,…
Right at the Arctic Circle lies the small locality of Juoksengi. Here in the province of Norrbotten, at the border with Finland in Northern Sweden, is a place that many would probably miss. That is unless this invisible line would have been found at its southern boundaries. Here the midnight sun and the polar night…
Lakeaharju is a hill in the forests of Vimpeli Municipality in the Southern Ostrobothnia Region of Western Finland. The hill’s peaks reach a height of 175 meters and it is home to a skiing center that was opened in 1976. The ski slopes and the hill offer a view of the lake Lappajärvi, a quite…
Skibotn is a village in northern Norway. It lies in the municipality of Storfjord in Troms County, right at the intersection between European Route E6 going through Norway and European Route E8 coming from Finland. In many ways, this is a gateway for visitors coming from Finland and Sweden and heading to the Arctic part…
Kime is a town in northern Finland, in the Lapland region. It is a town with an important harbor along the coast of the Gulf of Bothna. This is where the river Kemijoki enters the Baltic Sea. This is a monolingual part of Finland, with Finnish being the majority language for the around 19.300 inhabitants….
Ursvik is a district within Sundbyberg Municipality in Stockholm County. It is two districts, Stora Ursvik and Lilla Ursvik. In English that would be Ursvik Proper and Ursvik Lesser. Lilla Ursvik is mostly made up of villas or one-family homes while Stora Ursvik consists of a more modern urban planning with multi-family apartment buildings. Neighboring…