Luleå

[ loo-le-aw ]

noun

1. a seaport in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.

Luleå

/ ˈluːləoː /

noun

1. a port in N Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia: industrial and shipbuilding centre; icebound in winter. Pop: 72 608 (2004 est)

Example Sentences

Ancient hunter-gatherers at two Swedish sites “probably manufactured more iron and steel, and were more socially organized and sedentary than we previously thought,” says Luleå archaeologist and coauthor Kristina Söderholm.

From Science News

Here however I made no long stay, but proceeded in one day from thence to Lulea.

From Project Gutenberg

I remained four days at Quickjock to recruit my strength, and afterwards descended the river again to Lulea.

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He therefore, on the 23d, took leave of the mountainous part of Lapland, and returned by water towards Lulea.

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On the shore near old Lulea grew Ranunculus minimus parisiensis (R. reptans).

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The new town of Lulea is very small, situated on a peninsula, encompassed by a kind of bay.

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