Pajala

	Pajala
	Pajala
State :	Sweden
Province (län):	Norrbotten County
Historical Province (landskap):	Norrbotten
Municipality :	Pajala
Coordinates :	67 ° 13 ' N , 23 ° 22' E Coordinates: 67 ° 13 ' N , 23 ° 22' E
SCB code :	8780
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	2032 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	3.12 km²
Population density :	651 inhabitants / km²
	List of perpetrators in Norrbotten County

Pajala is a place ( Tatort ) in the northern Swedish province of Norrbotten County and the historic province of Norrbotten .

The main town of the municipality of the same name is located on the Swedish- Finnish border about 100 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle on Torne älv .

Sights include the sundial , the church and the home of the provost and botanist Lars Levi Læstadius , who is buried in Pajala. The Pajala Market is held in June every year.

The novel Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi , which was filmed in 2004 under the same title , provides insights into life in Pajala in the 1960s and 1970s .

Rectory
center
church

Famous pepole

Lars Levi Læstadius (1800–1861), clergyman
Gösta Montell (1899–1975), ethnographer
Mikael Niemi (* 1959), writer
Johan Tornberg (* 1973), ice hockey player

Web links

Commons : Pajala - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website (Swedish, Meänkieli, Finnish, English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)

[scb_aktuell-1] Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)