Kiruna
Americannoun
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a city in N Sweden: important iron-mining center.
noun
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a town in N Sweden: iron-mining centre. Pop: 23 273 (2004 est)
Example Sentences
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“If we cannot expand the mine, we cannot continue operating in Kiruna in the long term,” said Niklas Johansson, director of public affairs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025
Yet the scale and complexity of the Kiruna project, which affects two-thirds of its residents and involves demolishing and rebuilding the entire city center, makes it unique.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025
By the mid-2010s, other buildings in Kiruna were already being shifted to safer ground.
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025
The experiment took place on 1 October 2022 -- on board of the sounding rocket TEXUS-57 that was launched from the Esrange Space Center, 40 kilometers east of Kiruna in Sweden.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024
The largest of these deposits is at Kiruna in northern Sweden; in fact this is the largest single deposit of high-grade ore of any kind yet known in the world.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
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