North Norge

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Location of Northern Norway
Access to "Nord-Norge" on the E 6 south of Majavatn.
Landscape panorama in Steigen , Nordland .

Nord-Norge ( dt. Northern Norway ) is the northernmost part of Norway , located on the European North Sea and the Barents Sea . With 112,973 km² it makes up around 35 percent of the mainland, but with 484,546 inhabitants (2017) it only makes up nine percent of the population.

Nord-Norge is made up of the two provinces ( Fylke ) Nordland and Troms og Finnmark . The Nordnorsk råd cooperation committee is there to facilitate agreements between the two of them and to represent common interests . The largest cities are (from south to north): Mosjøen , Mo i Rana , Bodø , Narvik , Harstad , Tromsø , Alta and Hammerfest .

The Svartisen Glacier, the Lofoten and Vesterålen archipelagos are located in North Norge . With the Nordkinn peninsula , the northern end of mainland Europe can be found in North-Norge. The region is also known for its midnight sun and the northern lights .

Northern Norway belongs to the Sami settlement area . The Sametinget Parliament of Norway is in session in Karasjok .

Cultural institutions

A number of cultural institutions have been set up for the northern Norway catchment area:

People from Northern Norway

See also

Web links

Wikivoyage: North Norge  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. North-Norge. In: Store norske leksikon. Retrieved July 9, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).

Coordinates: 69 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 19 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E