Kiruna

American  

[kee-ry-nah] / ˈki rü nɑ /

noun

1. a city in N Sweden: important iron-mining center.

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Kiruna British  

/ ˈkiːruna /

noun

1. a town in N Sweden: iron-mining centre. Pop: 23 273 (2004 est)

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Example Sentences

The Swedish Space Corp.’s center in Kiruna, Sweden, offered the possibility of a land-based descent, so the balloon and its propeller-driven gondola could be reused, Keutsch explained.

From Scientific American

It was decided in 2004 for safety reasons to gradually move Kiruna’s inner city three kilometres to the east.

From Reuters

The more than a century old Kiruna mine, the world’s biggest underground iron ore mine, produced 14.7 Mt of iron ore products in 2019.

From Reuters

Operated by the Natural Environment Research Council, a British government science funding agency, the flight is one of a series of sorties that Pasternak and colleagues from several universities conducted in late July and early August from Kiruna, an iron mining town in the Lapland region of northern Sweden.

From Reuters

As the plane makes its way back to its temporary base in a hangar in Kiruna, she is sober about the uncertainties.

From Reuters