Pello

Pello (formerly Turtola) is a municipality of Finland.
Geography.
It is located approximately north of the Arctic Circle in the western part of the province of Lapland, and is part of the Lapland region. The municipality is on the national border with Sweden, by the Tornionjoki-river. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of
which 
is water. The population density is
The municipality is unilingually Finnish, according to the legal definition in Finland.