Teemu’s town in Lapland, Finland, has more reindeer than people. Around 22,500 reindeer versus 8,876 people, according to the latest census from 2015. The latter number has been decreasing steadily.
The town in question, Sodankylä, is four times the size of Antwerp. The province, not the city. That amounts to less than one person per square kilometre. Now I realise why some call Lapland Europe’s last wilderness.
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