Tärendö (, fit, Täräntö ) is a small
locality
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* Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England
* Locality (linguistics)
* Locality (settlement)
* Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ...
in
Norrbotten County,
Sweden with 208 inhabitants in 2000. It is located at the
Kalix River and the
bifurcation
Bifurcation or bifurcated may refer to:
Science and technology
* Bifurcation theory, the study of sudden changes in dynamical systems
** Bifurcation, of an incompressible flow, modeled by squeeze mapping the fluid flow
* River bifurcation, the ...
Tärendö River.
The village was probably founded around year 1620. The largest employer today is the saw mill. The nearest airports are
Pajala Airport, 28 km away and
Gällivare Airport
Gällivare (; fi, Jällivaara; se, Jiellevárri or ; smj, Jiellevárre or ; fit, Jellivaara) is a locality and the seat of Gällivare Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 8,449 inhabitants in 2010. The town wa ...
, 101 km away.
A well known person from Tärendö is the Olympic gold medalist in cross-country skiing
Charlotte Kalla
Marina Charlotte Kalla (born 22 July 1987 in Tärendö) is a Swedish cross-country skier who has been competing at international level since the 2003–04 season. Kalla is a three-time Olympian, winning her first Olympic gold medal at the 2010 Wi ...
.
There is also a line of
IKEA furniture named after the village.
References
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Populated places in Pajala Municipality
Norrbotten