Piteå Municipality (; ) is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in
Norrbotten County in northern
Sweden. Its
seat is located in
Piteå.
Localities
There are 14
localities (or urban areas) in Piteå Municipality:
The municipal seat in bold
Twin towns – sister cities
Piteå is
twinned with:
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Grindavík, Iceland
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Kandalaksha
Kandalaksha (russian: Кандала́кша; fi, Kantalahti, also ''Kandalax'' or ''Candalax'' in the old maps; krl, Kannanlakši; sms, Käddluhtt) is a town in Kandalakshsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the head of Kandala ...
, Russia
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Saint Barthélemy
Saint Barthélemy (french: Saint-Barthélemy, ), officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, is an overseas collectivity of France in the Caribbean. It is often abbreviated to St. Barth in French, and St. Barts in English ...
, France
Notable natives
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Lina Andersson,
cross-country skier
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Nicolai Dunger, artist
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Nils Edén, politician
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Tomas Holmström,
ice hockey player
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Niklas Jonsson, cross-country skier
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Liza Marklund
Eva Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund (born 9 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and crime writer.
Her novels, of which most feature the fictional newspaper journalist Annika Bengtzon, have been published in forty languages. Marklund is the co-owne ...
, author
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Stefan Persson, ice hockey player
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Mikael Renberg
Mikael Bo Renberg (born 5 May 1972) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player, last playing for Skellefteå AIK in Elitserien. He spent ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and eight in the Swedish Elite League.
Playing caree ...
, ice hockey player
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Daniel Solander
Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Solander was the first university-educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.
Biography ...
,
botanist
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Mattias Öhlund, ice hockey player
See also
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List of islands of the Piteå archipelago
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Gråträsk
References
External links
Piteå Municipality– Official site
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Piteå
Municipalities of Norrbotten County