Pajala

Pajala
Pajala
	Pajala Church, July 2004
	Pajala
	Coordinates: 67°11′N 23°22′E / 67.183°N 23.367°E
Province	Norrbotten
County	Norrbotten County
Municipality	Pajala Municipality
Area
• Total	3.78 km2 (1.46 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2010)
• Total	1,958
• Density	518/km2 (1,340/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Pajala (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈpɑjɑlɑ]) is a locality and the seat of Pajala Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden, with 1,958 inhabitants in 2010.^[1] It is located in Swedish Lapland.

Pajala is in the Torne Valley and was dominated by people speaking a Finnish dialect until Eastern Sweden (Finland) got annexed by Russia in the 1800s and Pajala ended on the Swedish side of the river that marked the border. Today the town is nearly unilingually Swedish although the Meänkieli name for the locality remains in use and is a minority language. Even so, Pajala has belonged to Sweden since the country's inception as a political unit.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.

[scb-1] "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.

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