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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. In Northern Sweden, an entire city is being relocated in a ...

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 ...

The relocation of Kiruna in Sweden’s Arctic has reached its most symbolic moment yet, as the city’s landmark wooden church is moved whole to a new site after standing in place for more than a century.

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 ...

IN four years time, the sleepy northerly Swedish town of Kiruna will have relocated somewhere else due to large scale mining in the area. At the turn of the 19th century the area consisted of a ...

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

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 ...