Övertorneå Municipality

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**Övertorneå Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Municipality and seat in Sweden Map outlining the municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Övertorneå
	66° 23′ N 23° 40′ E
	County	Norrbotten County
	Province	Norrbotten
	Area Rank	2,381 km² 36th of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	5,244 277th of 290
	Population density	2.2/km²

Övertorneå Municipality (Finnish name: Matarengi or Matarenki) is a Swedish municipality in Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden. Its seat is in the small town Övertorneå, with around 2,000 inhabitants located at the shore of the Torne River, opposite to Ylitornio (Övertorneå is Swedish translation of Ylitornio). Until the border between Sweden and Finland was drawn at the Torne River in 1809, the two villages on separate sides on the river were one.

Many names of places in the municipality have both a Swedish and a Finnish name, in the local dialect of Finnish known as one of the minority languages of Sweden, meänkieli.

1 Towns
2 Sights
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Towns

With population figures as of 2000, from Statistics Sweden.

Övertorneå 1,997
Svanstein 222
Hedenäset 300 (Finnish: Hietaniemi)
Juoksengi 430, is intersected by the Arctic Circle and known as the Arctic Circle Village, (Polcirkelbyn)