Muonio (previously called Muonionniska, Muoná) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Lapland. The municipality has a population of 2,474 and covers an area of 2 038,09 km² of which 134,32 km² is water (2006). The population density is 1,2284 inhabitants per km².
The neighbour municipalities are Enontekiö, Kittilä, Kolari and in the west Swedish Pajala. There is a bridge across the border river to Sweden.
Muonio is known as the municipality with the longest snow season in Finland. For that reason its vocational college has a top ski class that attracts aspiring cross-country ski champions from all over Finland.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. (...)
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