Tornio is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side. The municipality covers an area of 1,348.83 square kilometres (520.79 sq mi), of which 161.59 km2 (62.39 sq mi) is water. The population density is 17.68 inhabitants per square kilometre (45.8/sq mi), with a total population of 21,018.
Central Tornio
Torneå depicted in Suecia antiqua et hodierna
Illustration in Finland framstäldt i teckningar edited by Zacharias Topelius and published 1845-1852.
Tornio in 1908
Lapland is the largest and northernmost region of Finland. The 21 municipalities in the region cooperate in a Regional Council. Lapland borders the region of North Ostrobothnia in the south. It also borders the Gulf of Bothnia, Norrbotten County in Sweden, Finnmark County and Troms County in Norway, and Murmansk Oblast and the Republic of Karelia in Russia. Topography varies from vast mires and forests of the South to fells in the North. The Arctic Circle crosses Lapland, so polar phenomena such as the midnight sun and polar night can be viewed in Lapland.
The Luosto inselberg from air.
Aurora borealis over Kittilä, Lapland.
Wehrmacht soldiers with a local Sámi reindeer herder in Lappland, Sodankylä, Finland 1942.
Sámi family in Lapland, 1936.
