Pajala
This article is about the place Pajala; for other meanings see Pajala (disambiguation).
Pajala is a place (tätort) in the northern Swedish province of Norrbottens län and the historical province of Norrbotten.
The main town of the municipality of the same name is situated on the Swedish-Finnish border about 100 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle on Torne älv.
Sights are the sundial, the church and the home of the provost and botanist Lars Levi Læstadius, who is buried in Pajala. Every year in June the Pajala market is held.
Insights into life in Pajala in the 1960s and 1970s are provided by the novel Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi, which was made into a film under the same title in 2004.
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Rectory
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Center
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Church
Known persons
- Lars Levi Læstadius (1800-1861), clergyman
- Gösta Montell (1899-1975), ethnographer
- Mikael Niemi (* 1959), writer
- Johan Tornberg (* 1973), ice hockey player
