Finnish and Meänkieli have the official status of being minority languages in the municipality.

The home of Lars Levi Læstadius, famed botanist and Christian revivalist movement founder is located in Pajala.

The yellow house in the middle was used as the local Lutheran vicar's mansion from 1850 up to present day.

[5] In total there were 4,657 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.

Blocs This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991.