Kolari

This article is about the Finnish municipality. For other uses, see Kolari (disambiguation). You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Finnish.  (September 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Finnish Wikipedia article at [[:fi:Kolari]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fi|Kolari}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. Municipality in Lapland, FinlandKolariMunicipalityKolarin kuntaKolari kommunLake Kesänki at Ylläs Coat of armsLocation of Kolari in FinlandInteractive map of KolariCoordinates: 67°19′50″N 023°46′40″E / 67.33056°N 23.77778°E / 67.33056; 23.77778Country FinlandRegionLaplandSub-regionFell LaplandCharter1867Government • Municipal managerHeikki HavankaArea (2018-01-01) • Total2,617.87 km2 (1,010.77 sq mi) • Land2,559.29 km2 (988.15 sq mi) • Water59.15 km2 (22.84 sq mi) • Rank21st largest in FinlandPopulation (2025-12-31) • Total4,001 • Rank191st largest in Finland • Density1.56/km2 (4.0/sq mi)Population by native language • Finnish96.2% (official) • Swedish0.7% • Others3.1%Population by age • 0 to 1415.2% • 15 to 6457.6% • 65 or older27.1%Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)Websitewww.kolari.fi Kolari is a municipality of Finland at the Swedish border, which follows the Torne River, the longest free-flowing river in Europe. It is located in the region of Lapland. The municipality has a population of 4,001 (31 December 2025) and covers an area of 2,617.87 square kilometres (1,010.77 sq mi) of which 59.15 km2 (22.84 sq mi) is water. The population density is 1.56 inhabitants per square kilometre (4.0/sq mi). Neighbouring municipalities are Muonio, Pello, Kittilä, Rovaniemi in Finland and Pajala Municipality in Sweden. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Kolari railway station is the northernmost station in Finland. Ylläs, one of the most popular ski resorts in Finland, is located in Kolari. The area also features the country's largest bog with a thousand-year-old forest.[citation needed]