Furuflaten
Furuflaten, Vuošvággi, or Vuosvankka is a village in Lyngen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is located along the Lyngen fjord. Furuflaten is located at the mouth of the Lyngsdalselva river, about 15 kilometres south of the village of Lyngseidet and about 54 kilometres straight southeast of the city of Tromsø.Photo: Paan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 225 residents
- Description: settlement in Lyngen Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Furuflata” and “Furuflaten - Vuošvággi - Vuosvankka”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skibotn.
Skibotn
Photo: Ximonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skibotn is a village in Troms. It used to be an important meeting place between Norwegians, Sámi and Kven people, with a yearly market. Skibotn is on the shore in the innermost part of the fjord Lyngen, surrounded by large mountains including Nallagais, Imagais, Steindalsbreen, Balggesvarr and Storfjellet.
Furuflaten
- Categories: urban area in Norway, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Lyngen, Troms, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
69.4413° or 69° 26′ 29″ northLongitude
20.15401° or 20° 9′ 14″ eastPopulation
225Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO FUFOpen location code
9GX2C5R3+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1849662773OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Furuflaten” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Furuflata”
- Danish: “Furuflata”
- Dutch: “Furuflaten”
- French: “Furuflaten”
- Irish: “Furuflaten”
- Kven Finnish: “Vuosvankka”
- Malay: “Furuflaten”
- Northern Sami: “Vuošvággi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Furuflata”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Furuflaten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Furuflata”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Furuflaten”
- Norwegian: “Furuflaten”
- Romanian: “Furuflaten”
- Spanish: “Furuflaten”
- Swedish: “Furuflaten”
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