How is Sweden is managing to move an entire town? - BBC Travel Show

Moving house is hard but in Kiruna, Sweden they are having to move the house as well. The entire town is moving a few miles down the road is being relocated and rebuilt as a new town a few miles.

Located next to the largest underground iron ore mine in the world, the ground underneath the town is at risk of collapsing into a chasm as the mine continues to expand.

Some of town’s old buildings are being transported whole to the new site, others are being dismantled and reassembled piece by piece, and many others will be demolished.