Muddus is a national park

National park

A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or...

 in northern Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. It is situated in the province Lapland, with its largest part in the Gällivare Municipality

Gällivare Municipality

Gällivare Municipality is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Gällivare.The municipality is the third largest in Sweden, but it has not been amalgamated with other entities....

. Furthermore, it belongs to the largely untouched UNESCO

UNESCO

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 World Heritage classified Laponian area

Laponian area

The Laponian area is a large mountainous wildlife area in the Lapland province in Northern Sweden, more precisely in the Gällivare Municipality, Arjeplog Municipality and Jokkmokk Municipality...

.

Natural scenes include the primeval forest with large trees, large bog

Bog

A bog, quagmire or mire is a wetland that accumulates acidic peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses or, in Arctic climates, lichens....

gy grounds, and deep ravine

Ravine

A ravine is a landform narrower than a canyon and is often the product of streamcutting erosion. Ravines are typically classified as larger in scale than gullies, although smaller than valleys. A ravine is generally a fluvial slope landform of relatively steep sides, on the order of twenty to...

s in between the rocks. Sweden's oldest known pine

Pine

Pines are trees in the genus Pinus ,in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.-Etymology:...

 tree is also located here. It has been estimated to be at least 710 years, as it was found to have withstood a forest fire in 1413.

External links

• Muddus National Park from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
  Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
  The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is a Swedish government agency responsible for proposing and implementing environmental policies...