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Rovaniemi sub-region is a subdivision of Finnish Lapland and one of the sub-regions of Finland since 2009. It consists of the municipalities of Ranua and Rovaniemi . Municipalities
Rovaniemi municipality has an approximate population of 66,000. The urban area of Rovaniemi has a population of 53,361, in an area of about 59 km 2 (23 sq mi). Rovaniemi is a monolingual Finnish-speaking municipality, and unusually for larger Finnish towns, it is also known by its Finnish name and spelling in the Swedish language.
Up to 90% of Rovaniemi's building stock was destroyed during the Lapland War by the retreating German forces, necessitating the rebuilding of the city centre. [1] [2] In January 1945, Rovaniemi commissioned a new urban design from the Finnish Association of Architects rebuilding unit, with the design work headed by Alvar Aalto.
The first building to be built in the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi was the Roosevelt Lodge, which was built in the 1950s for a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the at that time US-President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The first original home of Santa Claus was Korvatunturi, built as the "Finnish equivelant of Disneyland". In 1985, Rovaniemi ...
Ranua Resort (better known as Ranua Zoo or Ranua Wildlife Park) is a wildlife park and a holiday resort that opened in 1983 in the municipality of Ranua, Lapland, Finland. It is the northernmost zoo in Finland and the second northeast in the world.
Map of the Kemijoki basin The Kemijoki about 30 kilometres (19 mi) downstream of Rovaniemi. The Kemijoki or Kemi River (Swedish: Kemi älv, Northern Sami: Giemajohka), with its 550 km (340 mi) length, is the longest river in Finland. It runs south through the towns of Kemijärvi and Rovaniemi before reaching the Gulf of Bothnia at Kemi. [1]
Route options under consideration included starting at Rovaniemi or Kemijärvi in Finland to either Kirkenes in Norway or Murmansk in Russia, or from Kolari or Tornio in Finland to Narvik (via Sweden) or Tromsø in Norway. [4] The Rovaniemi to Kirkenes route has been determined to be the most feasible, [5] with an estimated cost of €2.9 billion.
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