This is Luleå

  • 78,000 residents
  • Part of the greater Luleå region, with over 170,000 residents.
  • Part of Sweden's Arctic destination, Swedish Lapland
  • The region borders Norway and Finland, and thanks to good communications, it is an attraction area for 1.7 million people
  •  1,312 archipelagic islands with 1,100 holiday cabins and cottages
  • Real seasons: bright summer nights and ice roads in winter
  • The most accessible part of northern Sweden

Luleå Airport is the fifth largest airport in the country, just 10 minutes by car from the city centre. More than a million travellers pass through here every year.

The port of Luleå  is Sweden's northernmost and one of the largest in the country. State-owned icebreakers and council-owned tugboats keep the fairways open in winter.

Luleå University of Technology  with 16,000 students and 1,700 employees offers world-class research and education.

Luleå has a diverse business environment with everything from steel and tech industry, a broad service sector, a growing retail and tourism industry, to new creative industries such as film production and digital design

Facebook chose Luleå for its datacenters, due to the favourable climate and our access to clean energy. Today, Luleå and the region form the stage for the industrial, green transition, and the world looks to us for solutions to the climate crisis.

Gammelstad Church Town is one of Sweden's 15 World Heritage Sites, listed by UNESCO as sites to preserve for the future. Here you will find over 400 church cottages, and a stone church from 1492, still in use today.

The Luleå archipelago is accessible throughout the seasons. In the summertime, the midnight light lets you kayak and sail round the clock. In summer and autumn, you can also go on boat tours to the largest islands. In winter, tens of kilometres of ice roads are prepared, allowing you to move through the archipelago by car or snowmobile.

One of Luleå's most popular outdoor recreation attractions is the ice track that's prepared around the city centre peninsula. The ice track is the largest of its kind and has received international attention for its quality. The Dutch long distance ice skating cup KPN Grand Prix, one of the largest ice skating competitions in the world, holds several of its races on the ice track.