Kolari
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- This article is about the Finnish municipality. For other meanings, see Kolari (disambiguation).
Kolari is a municipality of Finland at the Swedish border, which follows the longest freeflowing river in Europe.
It is located in the province of Lapland. The municipality has a population of 3,908 and covers an area of 2618.26 km² of which 55.57 km² is water. The population density is 1.5 inhabitants per km². The village of Kolari has the northernmost railway station in Finland.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
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.
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