Arvidsjaur is a locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 and the seat of Arvidsjaur Municipality

Arvidsjaur Municipality

Arvidsjaur Municipality is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Arvidsjaur.-History:Arvidsjaur Municipality was for a long time only inhabited by the Sami people. They were back then a hunting people, living off the abundance of fish and wildlife in the area...

 in Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is the northernmost county or län of Sweden. It borders Västerbotten County to the southwest, the Gulf of Bothnia to the southeast. It also borders the counties of Nordland and Troms in Norway to the northwest, and Lapland Province in Finland to the northeast.The name...

, Sweden

Sweden

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 with 4,644 inhabitants in 2005.

Arvidsjaur is a large centre for the European car industry. During the winter months major car-manufacturers perform arctic trials in the Arvidsjaur Municipality area. The town also supports tourism by offering snowmobile tours, trekking, skiing, fishing and dogsled rides. If things go according to plan, Arvidsjaur will be the site of the front legs of the world's largest moose – Stoorn

Stoorn

Stoorn is a giant wooden elk planned to be built in northern Norrland in Sweden. The elk, intended as a tourist attraction, will be 45 m high, 47 m long, and will contain three floors of 500 m2 each, and one floor of 250 m2. It will hold a restaurant, conference centre and a...

 – a tourist attraction planned to be built spanning from Arvidsjaur into Skellefteå

Skellefteå

-Industry:*Boliden AB, a big mining and smelting company*Alimak*Natural User Interface Technologies AB - NUITEQ, a promising emerging technology start-up company-Sports:*Skellefteå AIK, an ice hockey team in the highest Swedish league, Elitserien....

 in Västerbotten

Västerbotten

', English exonym: West Bothnia, is a province or landskap in the north of Sweden. It borders Ångermanland, Lapland, Norrbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is famous for the cheese with the same name as the province.- Administration :...

. It is also the birth place of the video game character Mattias Nilsson from Mercenaries

Mercenaries (series)

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External links

• Arvidsjaur - Official site
• Arvidsjaur.eu - Information about Arvidsjaur