Aapua is a village in the
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
of
Norrbotten
Norrbotten (), known in English as North Bothnia, is a Swedish province (''landskap'') in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to Västerbotten, west to Swedish Lapland, and east to Finland.
Administration
The traditional provinces of Swe ...
in
Sweden. The village is situated in
Övertorneå
Övertorneå ( fit, Matarengi; fi, Matarenki) is a locality and the seat of Övertorneå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden with 1,917 inhabitants in 2010.
It is located at the shore of the Torne River, opposite to their Finnish twin ...
Municipality, 60 km from
Pajala
Pajala () is a locality and the seat of Pajala Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden, with 1,958 inhabitants in 2010. It is located in Swedish Lapland.
Pajala is in the Torne Valley and was dominated by people speaking a Finnish dialect u ...
. In 2000 the village had 137 inhabitants. To the south there is a lake, Aapuajärvi. In 2005,
seven wind turbines were built on the mountain Etu-Aapua, which is nearby. These wind turbines are the northernmost wind turbines in
Sweden.
References
Populated places in Övertorneå Municipality
Norrbotten
Populated places in Arctic Sweden
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