Enontekiö is a large, mountaineous municipality in Finnish Lapland.
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In the northwest of Lapland, reindeer husbandry has already been done for centuries, in contrast to the other regions of the Finnish reindeer husbandry area, where it was only introduced on a large scale in the 19 th century after the eradication of the wild Finnish Forest Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus).
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Kilpisjärvi is served by regular busses from Rovaniemi and by line taxi from Hetta.
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Being estabilished in 1621 Tornio is definitely the oldest city in Lapland.
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Finland's highest mountain, the Halti (1328m) in the farthest north west end of Lapland is not much more than a higher hill of loose rocks (this is due to its precence in the middle of highlands), the lower summit of a mountain with its top on the Norwegian side of the border.
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As an example, on the Swedish side of the Torne Valley one still makes types of food, such as rieska ,that are usually considered Finnish rather than Swedish.
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