Tornio is a town and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The municipality covers an area of 1,348.55 square kilometres (520.68 sq mi) of which 161.59 km 2(62.39 sq mi) is water. The population density is 18.98 inhabitants per square kilometre (49.2 /sq mi), with a total population of 22,525 (30 September 2012). It borders to the Swedish municipality of Haparanda (in Finnish: Haaparanta). Tornio is unilingual Finnish