Bjørnevatn
Bjørnevatn, Kuõbǯǯjäuʹrr, Guovžajávri, or Kruuvakylä is a village in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies about 8 kilometres south of the town of Kirkenes and about 3.8 kilometres west of the Norway-Russia border.
- Type: Village with 2,600 residents
- Description: settlement in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Björnevand”, “Bjornevatn”, “Björnvandet”, “Guovžajávri”, “Kruuvakylä”, and “Kuõbǯǯjäuʹrr”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hesseng and Borisoglebsky.
Hesseng
Village
Hesseng is a village in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies about 5 kilometres south of the town of Kirkenes. The village of Hesseng lies at the intersection of the European route E105 and European route E6 highways.
Borisoglebsky
Hamlet
Borisoglebsky is a rural locality in Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The village is located beyond the Arctic Circle, at a height of 95 meters above sea level on the Paatsjoki River. Borisoglebsky is situated 6 km east of Bjørnevatn.
Kirkenes
Kirkenes is a town in the Finnmark region of Norway, far east near the Russian border, more or less in the end of mainland Norway. This is the last port for Hurtigruten and the end of Norway's main road E6, 2,500 km from Oslo and 3,120 km from Trelleborg.
Bjørnevatn
- Categories: urban area in Norway and locality
- Location: Sør-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
69.66737° or 69° 40′ 3″ north
Longitude
29.98722° or 29° 59′ 14″ east
Population
2,600
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NO BJV
Open location code
9GXFMX8P+WV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Bjørnevatn” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Bjørnevatn”
- Catalan: “Bjørnevatn”
- Cebuano: “Bjørnevatn”
- Chinese: “比约内湖”
- Chinese: “比约讷瓦滕”
- Danish: “Bjørnevatn”
- Dutch: “Bjørnevatn”
- Finnish: “Bjørnevatn”
- Finnish: “Kruuvakylä”
- French: “Bjørnevatn”
- German: “Bjørnevatn”
- German: “Guovžajávri”
- German: “Kruuvakylä”
- German: “Kuõbǯǯjäuʹrr”
- Italian: “Bjørnevatn”
- Javanese: “Bjørnevatn”
- Kven Finnish: “Kruuvakylä”
- Malay: “Bjørnevatn”
- Northern Sami: “Guovžajávri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bjørnevatn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bjørnevatn”
- Norwegian: “Bjørnevatn”
- Romanian: “Bjørnevatn”
- Skolt Sami: “Kuõbǯǯjäuʹrr”
- Spanish: “Bjørnevatn”
- Swedish: “Bjørnevatn”
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