Norrbottens-Kuriren is a daily regional newspaper pubilished in Norrbotten

Norrbotten

Norrbotten is a Swedish province in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to Västerbotten, west to Swedish Lapland, and east to Finland.- Administration :...

, 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....

, and has its main office in Luleå

Luleå

- Transportation :Local buses are run by .A passenger train service is available from Luleå Centralstation on Sweden's national SJ railway service northbound to Narvik on the Norwegian coast, or southbound to Stockholm. See Rail transport in Sweden....

. It was founded in 1861, and therefore is the oldest newspaper in the 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...

. The managing director is Sture Bergman. In 2005, the newspaper had 27,600 readers.

In the surrounding area, Norrbottens-Kuriren has one main competitor, named Norrländska Socialdemokraten

Norrländska Socialdemokraten

Norrländska Socialdemokraten is a daily regional newspaper published in Norrbotten, Sweden. It is the largest morning newspaper in the region, as well as the largest newspaper published north of Uppsala, with a daily circulation of 35,600 . It was founded in 1918, but was first published on 4...

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