As the northernmost city in Sweden, Kiruna is used to seemingly endless winters, short, cold summers, and relative isolation in the vast expanse of Swedish Lapland. Its population, just shy of 20,000, ...

Can a city pick itself up and head down the road? In perhaps the most radical urban relocation project so far this century, the town of Kiruna is trying to do just that. A mining settlement in ...

Probably Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals, Kiruna's Per Geijer, is moving forward. The project is so massive ...

Sweden's historic Kiruna Church needed to be relocated due to an expanding iron ore mine in the area. Rather than demolishing it or trying to carefully disassemble it for the move, the decision was ...

When mining forced the Swedish town of Kiruna to move in 2014, city planners promised a fresh start. But residents say the new town has lost the warmth that defined the old one - both in spirit and ...

The Kiruna Church and its belfry are being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as part of the town’s relocation. The world’s largest underground iron-ore mine ...

The video authentically showed Kiruna Church on its 5-kilometer (3.1 mile) journey through the city of Kiruna. However ... What's False Kiruna is located in Sweden, not Norway. In late August 2025 a ...

Kiruna, an iron ore mining town in Swedish Lapland 87 miles into the Arctic Circle, is sinking. Ten years ago, Sweden’s state-owned mining company LKAB, which supplies 90 per cent of the European ...

Videos Arial shot of the Kiruna Church, 2017. Image © Arild Vågen via Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International ...

Australian Kiruna Stamell may be small of stature, but she's a powerhouse on the stage and screen. The 37-year-old was born with a rare form of dwarfism which means she stands at just over a metre ...

This spring work will begin to move Sweden's northernmost town two miles to the east. Over the next 20 years, 20,000 people will move into new homes, built around a new town centre, as a mine ...