Sangis

Sangis
Sangis
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Norrbotten County
Historical Province (landskap):	Norrbotten
Municipality  :	Kalix
Coordinates :	65 ° 51 ′  N , 23 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 65 ° 51 ′  N , 23 ° 30 ′  E
SCB code :	8836
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	543 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	2.22 km²
Population density :	245 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Norrbotten County

Sangis is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Norrbotten County , in the historical province (landskap) Norrbotten .

Sangis belongs to the municipality of Kalix and within this, since January 1, 2016, to the district of Nederkalix, named after the parish (socken), which has had this name since 1644. It is located about 70 km as the crow northeast of the provincial capital Luleå and 15 km east of Kalix on the right bank of the river Sangis River , just above its confluence with the Bay Sangisfjärden of Bothnia of the Baltic Sea .

Europastraße 4 ( Europaväg 4 ) leads through the village . The provincial road Länsväg 398 branches off to the west , which initially follows the Sangisälven to the north and finally reaches Riksväg 99 , which runs along the Finnish border, at Hedenäset south of Övertorneå .

The wooden church of Sangis was built in 1915 and rebuilt in the 1950s. Three kilometers southwest of the village is located near the European route of Sangishögen, a grave mound from the Viking era .

Individual evidence

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