Skjervøy
Skjervøy, Skiervá, or Kierua is the administrative centre in Skjervøy Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is located on the island of Skjervøya along the Kvænangen fjord, near the mouth of the Reisafjorden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,440 residents
- Description: village in the municipality of Skjervøy, Troms, Norway
- Also known as: “Skjarvöy”, “Skjervö”, “Skjervoy”, and “Skjoervø”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skjervøy Church.
Skjervøy Church
Church
Photo: Cotylorhynchus Manutius, CC0.
Skjervøy Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Skjervøy Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of village of Skjervøy on the island of Skjervøya.
Skjervøy
- Categories: human settlement, urban area in Norway, and locality
- Location: Skjervøy, Troms, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
70.03362° or 70° 2′ 1″ northLongitude
20.97475° or 20° 58′ 29″ eastPopulation
2,440Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)Inception
<1885United Nations Location Code
NO SKYOpen location code
CG222XMF+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 281228652OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
777682Wikidata ID
Q7536014
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Skjervøy” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Skjervøy”
- Cebuano: “Skjervøy”
- Czech: “Skjervøy”
- Danish: “Skjervøy”
- Dutch: “Skjervøy”
- French: “Skjervøy”
- Irish: “Skjervøy”
- Malay: “Skjervøy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skjervøy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skjervøy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tettstaden Skjervøy”
- Norwegian: “Skjervøy”
- Portuguese: “Skjervøy (vila)”
- Portuguese: “Skjervøy”
- Spanish: “Skjervøy”
- Swedish: “Skjervøy”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include NAV Skjervøy and Skjervøy rådhus.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skjervøy”. Photo: Mikepopstar, Public domain.