Haparanda Municipality

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| native_name = Haparanda kommun

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| settlement_type = Municipality

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| subdivision_name = Sweden

| subdivision_type1 = County

| subdivision_name1 = Norrbotten County

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| seat_type = Seat

| seat = Haparanda

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| iso_code = SE

| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20081210111738/http://www.haparanda.se/sprak/gbsidor.4.3440ac4010c0ee47b4d8000738.html www.haparanda.se]

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Haparanda Municipality ({{Langx|sv|Haparanda kommun}}; Meänkieli and Finnish: Haaparannan kunta) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Haparanda ({{Langx|fit|Haaparanta}}).

In 1967 the "City of Haparanda" was merged with the rural municipalities Karl Gustav and Nedertorneå. Since 1971 Haparanda, like all other municipalities of Sweden, is a municipality of unitary type. However, it prefers to use the title stad ("city") for the whole territory, including the non-urban parts.

Geography

In Sweden, Haparanda Municipality borders Övertorneå Municipality to the north and Kalix Municipality to the west.

Haparanda Municipality is located on the western side of where the Torne River discharges into the Bay of Bothnia. On the other side of the river lies the Finnish town Tornio (Swedish: Torneå). Haparanda and Tornio jointly call themselves "EuroCity".

Although Haparanda has a boat harbor, it is not accessible for larger vessels and is not, as often thought, the Baltic Sea's northernmost port, that honor most probably belonging to Töre further west on the Swedish coast.

The municipality includes the Haparanda archipelago, with 652 islands in the bay of Bothnia, part of the larger Norrbotten archipelago.{{cite web|ref={{harvid|About the Bay ... Bottenvikens skärgård}}|url=http://www.swedishlapland.com/en/Bottenvikens-skargard/info/Information/|title=About the Bay of Bothnia|work=Bottenvikens skärgård|access-date=30 September 2013|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005023046/http://www.swedishlapland.com/en/Bottenvikens-skargard/info/Information/|archive-date=5 October 2013}}

The Haparanda Archipelago National Park lies within the Haparanda group of islands. It includes the larger islands of Sandskär and Seskar Furö, and some smaller islands and skerries.{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Haparanda Skärgård National Park}} |url=http://www.swedishepa.se/Enjoying-nature/Protected-areas/National-Parks/Haparanda-Skargard/ |title=Haparanda Skärgård National Park|publisher=Swedish Environmental Protection Agency|access-date=2 October 2013}}

Some of the other islands in the Haparanda archipelago include Hanhinkari, Kataja, Seskarö, Skomakaren, Stora Hamnskär, Stora Hepokari and Torne-Furö.{{cite web |url=http://www.bottenviken.se/haparanda/oar/index.html |title=Öar i Haparanda skärgård|work=bottenviken.se|access-date=10 October 2013}}

=Localities=

There are five localities (or urban areas) in Haparanda Municipality:[http://www.scb.se/statistik/MI/MI0810/2005A01A/Tatorternami0810tab1en.xls Statistics Sweden as of 31 December 2005]

class="wikitable" ! # !! Locality !! Population
1	Haparanda	align="right" \| 4,778
2	Marielund	align="right" \| 1,865
3	Seskarö	align="right" \| 498
4	Nikkala	align="right" \| 447
5	Karungi	align="right" \| 232

The municipal seat in bold

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Haparanda Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.{{cite web|url=https://valresultat.svt.se/2022/riksdagsval-2583-haparanda.html|title=Valresultat 2022 för Haparanda i riksdagsvalet|publisher=SVT|language=sv|date=11 September 2022|accessdate=21 December 2023}}

Haparanda has a high degree of people of foreign background since records were kept in 2002, mainly a result of cross-border connections with Tornio and Finland.

In total there were 6,198 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 47.7% voted for the left coalition and 51.3% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

role="presentation" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" ! rowspan="3" \|Location ! {{tooltip\|2=Number of residents in district, regardless of age or citizenship status\|Residents}} ! {{tooltip\|2=Swedish citizens above the age of 18, automatically eligible to vote\|Citizen {{br}} adults}} ! {{tooltip\|2=Social Democrats, Left Party, Centre Party, Green Party, %\|Left vote}} ! {{tooltip\|2=Sweden Democrats, Moderates, Christian Democrats, Liberals, %\|Right vote}} ! {{tooltip\|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as the share of people between the ages of 20 and 64 who are working taxpayers, %\|Employed}} ! {{tooltip\|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as residents born in Sweden with at least one Swedish-born parent, %\|Swedish {{br}} parents}} ! {{tooltip\|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as residents born abroad or in Sweden with two foreign-born parents, %\|Foreign {{br}} heritage}} ! {{tooltip\|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as the median income received monthly income through either employment, capital gains or social grants for the median adult above 20, also including pensioners in Swedish kronor\|Income {{br}} SEK}} ! {{tooltip\|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as any degree accumulated after high school, %\|Degree}}
! ! style="background:{{party color\|Swedish Social Democratic Party}};color:#FFFFFF;" \| ! style="background:{{party color\|Moderate Party}};color:#FFFFFF;" \| ! ! ! ! !
data-sort-type="number" \| ! data-sort-type="number" \| ! data-sort-type="number" \| % ! data-sort-type="number" \| % ! data-sort-type="number" \| ! data-sort-type="number" \| ! data-sort-type="number" \| ! data-sort-type="number" \| ! data-sort-type="number" \|
align="left" \|Grankullen \| 1,121 \| 750 \| 44.1 \| 54.9 \| 78 \| 59 \| 41 \| 26,566 \| 30
align="left" \|Haparanda N \| 2,365 \| 1,459 \| 46.0 \| 52.3 \| 67 \| 40 \| 60 \| 19,798 \| 24
align="left" \|Haparanda S \| 1,580 \| 1,105 \| 51.5 \| 47.0 \| 67 \| 40 \| 60 \| 19,977 \| 30
align="left" \|Karungi \| 913 \| 605 \| 41.9 \| 57.4 \| 74 \| 66 \| 34 \| 20,761 \| 22
align="left" \|Marielund \| 2,008 \| 1,183 \| 48.8 \| 50.6 \| 67 \| 40 \| 60 \| 22,044 \| 24
align="left" \|Nikkala \| 1,031 \| 742 \| 48.2 \| 51.3 \| 78 \| 66 \| 34 \| 24,213 \| 26
align="left" \|Seskarö \| 467 \| 354 \| 64.1 \| 35.9 \| 72 \| 69 \| 31 \| 21,187 \| 25
colspan="10" align="left" \|Source: SVT

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! {{tooltip|2=Sweden Democrats, Moderates, Christian Democrats, Liberals, %|Right vote}}

! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as the share of people between the ages of 20 and 64 who are working taxpayers, %|Employed}}

! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as residents born in Sweden with at least one Swedish-born parent, %|Swedish {{br}} parents}}

! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as residents born abroad or in Sweden with two foreign-born parents, %|Foreign {{br}} heritage}}

! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as the median income received monthly income through either employment, capital gains or social grants for the median adult above 20, also including pensioners in Swedish kronor|Income {{br}} SEK}}

! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as any degree accumulated after high school, %|Degree}}

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align="left" |Grankullen

| 1,121

| 750

| 44.1

| 54.9

| 78

| 59

| 41

| 26,566

| 30

align="left" |Haparanda N

| 2,365

| 1,459

| 46.0

| 52.3

| 67

| 40

| 60

| 19,798

| 24

align="left" |Haparanda S

| 1,580

| 1,105

| 51.5

| 47.0

| 67

| 40

| 60

| 19,977

| 30

align="left" |Karungi

| 913

| 605

| 41.9

| 57.4

| 74

| 66

| 34

| 20,761

| 22

align="left" |Marielund

| 2,008

| 1,183

| 48.8

| 50.6

| 67

| 40

| 60

| 22,044

| 24

align="left" |Nikkala

| 1,031

| 742

| 48.2

| 51.3

| 78

| 66

| 34

| 24,213

| 26

align="left" |Seskarö

| 467

| 354

| 64.1

| 35.9

| 72

| 69

| 31

| 21,187

| 25

colspan="10" align="left" |Source: SVT

Twin towns – sister cities

Haparanda is twinned with:

{{flagicon|NOR}} Hammerfest, Norway
{{flagicon|RUS}} Kovdor, Russia
{{flagicon|LTU}} Širvintos, Lithuania

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20081210111738/http://www.haparanda.se/sprak/gbsidor.4.3440ac4010c0ee47b4d8000738.html Haparanda Municipality] - Official site
[http://www.haparandatornio.com/ Haparanda-Tornio] - Official tourism site

{{Geographic location

| Centre = Haparanda

| NE = {{Flagicon|FIN}} Ylitornio

| E = {{Flagicon|FIN}} Tornio

| S = Bothnian Bay

| W = Kalix

| NW = Övertorneå

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Category:Municipalities of Norrbotten County

Category:Meänkieli-language municipalities