Enontekiö
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Enontekiö Enontekiö – Eanodat |
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| Enontekiön kunta | ||
Enontekiö Church
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 Location of Enontekiö in Finland |
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| Coordinates: 68°23′05″N 023°38′20″E / 68.38472°N 23.63889°ECoordinates: 68°23′05″N 023°38′20″E / 68.38472°N 23.63889°E | ||
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 Finland
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| Region | Lapland | |
| Sub-region | Fell Lapland | |
| Charter | 1877 | |
| Seat | Hetta | |
| Government | ||
| • Municipality manager | Pentti Keskitalo | |
| Area (2016-01-01) | ||
| • Total | 7,950.40 km2 (3,069.67 sq mi) | |
| • Land | 7,945.55 km2 (3,067.79 sq mi) | |
| • Water | 445.84 km2 (172.14 sq mi) | |
| Area rank | 4th largest in Finland | |
| Population (2016-03-31) | ||
| • Total | 1,877 | |
| • Rank | 275th largest in Finland | |
| • Density | 0.24/km2 (0.6/sq mi) | |
| Population by native language | ||
| • Finnish | 89.3% (official) | |
| • Swedish | 0.6% | |
| • Sami | 9.2% (official) | |
| • Others | 0.8% | |
| Population by age | ||
| • 0 to 14 | 12.4% | |
| • 15 to 64 | 69.2% | |
| • 65 or older | 18.3% | |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | |
| Municipal tax rate | 20.5% | |
| Website | www.enontekio.fi | |
Enontekiö (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈenontekiø]; Northern Sami: Eanodat, Swedish: Enontekis) is a municipality in the Finnish part of Lapland with approx. 1,900 inhabitants. It is situated in the outermost northwest of the country and occupies a large and very sparsely populated area of about 8,000 square kilometres (3,100 sq mi) between the Swedish and Norwegian border. Finland's highest point, the Halti fell with a height of 1,324 metres (4,344 ft) above the mean sea level, lies in the north of Enontekiö, where the municipality occupies a part of the Scandinavian Mountains. The administrative centre of Enontekiö is the village of Hetta. About one fifth of the community's population are Sami people. Enontekiö's main industries are tourism and reindeer husbandry.
Enontekiö is located in the province of Lapland in the outermost northwest tip of Finland. The bulge between Swedish and Norwegian border, which is occupied by the municipality of Enontekiö, is called Käsivarsi (Finnish for "arm"), because before World War II, Finland's borders had the shape of a woman's figure (Suomi-neito) and the area looked like her raised right arm. The municipality occupies a large and sparsely populated area of 7,950.4 km2 (3,069.7 sq mi) (more than three times the area of Luxembourg). Thus Enontekiö is Finland's third-largest municipality in size, after Inari and Sodankylä, and with a population density of only 0.24/km2 (0.62/sq mi), it is the second-most sparsely populated municipality, after Savukoski.
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