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Luleå

urban area in Luleå Municipality, Sweden
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Summary

Luleå is an urban area in Sweden[1]. Luleå ranks in the top 0.82% of urban area in sweden entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,924 views/month, #12 of 1,464).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Union of the Baltic Cities[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Luleå Municipality[4], Norrbotten[5], Luleå domkyrkodistrikt[6], Nederluleå[7], Örnäset[8]
  • Country: Sweden[9]
  • Instance of: city[10]
  • Twinned administrative body: Kemi[11], Murmansk[12], Puerto Cabezas[13], Tromsø Municipality[14], Zenica[15], Novéant-sur-Moselle[16], Santa Lucía de Tirajana[17]
  • Postal code: 97X XX[18]
  • Commons category: Luleå[19]
  • Local dialing code: 0920[20]
  • Coordinate location: 65.583820878214, 22.191498303076[21]
  • Official website: https://www.lulea.se[22]
  • IPA transcription: [ˈlʉ̌ːlɛɔ][23]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Luleå[24]
  • Commons gallery: Luleå[25]
  • Population: 46,607[26], 43,574[27], 43,854[28], 44,054[29], 44,208[30], 48,728[31], 48,749[32], 49,123[33], 49,646[34]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[35], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[36], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[37]
  • Capital of: Norrbotten County[38], Luleå Municipality[39]
  • Official name: Luleå[40]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Luleå[41]
  • Native label: Julevu[42]
  • Category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in Luleå[43]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Luleå[44]
  • Elevation above sea level: 6[45]
  • Area: 2908.97[46], 2706[47], 2856[48], 2845[49], 3000[50]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Luleå include Luleå/Kallax Airport[51], an airport[52], in Sweden[53], founded in 1944[54].

Why It Matters

Luleå has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[55] Luleå is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[56]

Entities named for Luleå include Luleå/Kallax Airport[51], an airport[52], in Sweden[53], founded in 1944[54].

Related Entities

city Luleå University of Technology Maud Adams Olov Schelén Sweden Zenica

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [54] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [55] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [56] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dagens nyheter topic id → lulea
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Dagens nyheter topic id: lulea, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/62744373|Luleå (#62744373)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/488|DN topic]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43880|batch #43880]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
    Commons category → Luleå
    Freebase id → /m/03zncj
    Area → —
    + 130 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 157464, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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