Oulu (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈowlu] ( listen); Swedish: Uleåborg [ʉːle.ɔˈbɔrj]) is a city and municipality of 202,753 inhabitants (31 August 2018) in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland and the fifth most populous city in the country. There are no larger cities in the world, apart from Murmansk Russia, that are more northerly than Oulu. It is also considered one of Europe's "living labs", where residents experiment with new technology (such as NFC tags and ubi-screens) at a community-wide scale.