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‘A lot of people are sad’: The €3bn effort to move a Swedish Arctic town • FRANCE 24 English

FRANCE24, 18 Jan 2023
The town of Kiruna in the Swedish Arctic is on the move, literally. The entire town centre is slowly being relocated 3km away in order to allow the vast iron ore mine underneath it to expand. It is a colossal project that is likely to take decades to be completed, and one that has left the town’s residents divided.
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