About Kiruna Links

Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost town, is in many ways a place of extremes. In this area, the light is lighter, the cold is colder, the peaks are higher and the nature wilder than anywhere else in Sweden. With its 20,000 km², Kiruna Municipality is about half the size of the Netherlands, but has only 23,000 inhabitants. Some 18,000 of them live in the town of Kiruna and the remainder in some 50 small villages. With Swedish, Sami and Tornedalen Finnish cultures living side-by-side, Kiruna has three official languages.

Here in Swedish Lapland, the landscape is wild and vast. In the summertime, many tourists come here for hiking and fishing. The air is pure and the summer nights are bright. Kiruna enjoys 50 days of midnight sun every summer, from the end of May to mid-July. On the other hand, for 20 days in December the sun never rises over the horizon, and the winters are long and snowy – a perfect destination for skiers.

Kiruna is the number one tourist destination in northern Sweden. One of the main attractions is the ICEHOTEL, which since the start in 1990 has grown into Sweden’s internationally best-known tourist destination. Kiruna is also well known for its mining industry as well as space-related research and operations.

Technical Conference Tour to Kiruna and Esrange Space Center 15-17 June
All SpaceOps attendees are invited to join a 2-days Technical Conference Tour to Kiruna and Esrange Space Center.
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