Talk:Rovaniemi
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Thanks to whoever fine tuned my clumsy additions here. I have only been a visitor to Rovaniemi - but I fell in love with it - a great city. Hope you get the EU Captial in 2011.
- Finnish: 35,158
- foreigners: 497
- total: 34,930
The figures don't add up. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | Talk 17:20, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
The population section needs revision in any case, since after the two municipalities merged, Rovaniemi now has more than 55 000 citizens, not 35-thousand-something. We should find some current statistics for a rewrite, though. -- Matti Nuortio, Oulu, Finland
[edit] Roavenjárga VS Roavvenjárga
If Roavenjárga is the North Sámi name for Rovaniemi, then what does that make of Roavvenjárga? I know it's definitely not the Skolt Sámi name because it's very widely used, e.g. it's the name on Finnish road atlases. Can anyone shed some light on this? --TonyM ｷﾀ━( °∀° )━ｯ!! 18:01, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- There are two variants of the name of Rovaniemi in the Northern Sami language: Roavenjárga and Roavvenjárga. --Hippophaë 18:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Great Arctic Highway
What is the "Great Arctic Highway"? A google search leads back to this page, or copies of it. The only other mention is passing reference to a never-written book about music. ~IMP
- I have lived in Finland for 27 years, 8 of which in Rovaniemi, and never heard about that. Furthermore, there are no highways (if that means valtatie in Finnish) at all beginning in Rovaniemi, only one that runs through it (number 4). --Oami 16:59, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Minimum temperature
The figure of –51.7 °C (–61.1 °F) is certainly wrong, since the record for the whole of Finland stands at –51.5 °C (–60.7 °F). Prior to the unification with the rural municipality of Rovaniemi the record stood at –47.5 °C (–53.5 °F), recorded on January 28, 1999.
BTW, I took a plunge into the snow straight from the sauna that day: from +70 °C (+158 °F) to –45 °C (–49 °F) in a matter of seconds wet and butt-naked :)
And yeah, this is my home town. Anshelm '77
