Inari Municipality

Inari is the largest municipality in Finland and one of the most international tourism destinations. Inari is located in the northernmost corner of the European Union, in the middle of the Northern Polar Cap. It covers 5 percent of the total surface area in Finland. Thanks to its central location Inari has throughout the ages been the meeting place of cultures and a natural route to the Arctic Ocean. 

In the municipality three different Sámi languages are officially used side by side with Finnish language: they are North Sámi, Inari Sámi and Skolt Sámi languages. Almost one third of the Inari citizens are Sámi. Two thirds of the population of Inari municipality live in the village of Ivalo.

Annually hundreds of thousands tourists visit our area and the travel seasons alternate smoothly with the four gorgeous times of the year. Saariselkä is a well-known ski resort in Finland where people come to experience also the magnificent autumn colours and the polar night with its Northern Lights in the middle of the winter. 

Besides the tourism industry and its multiple service providers the main livelihoods are  reindeer herding, fishing, forestry, training services and other private services. A new addition to the traditional business sectors in the past ten years is cold technology and especially car and tyre testing in arctic conditions.

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