Fauske
Bodø is the seat of Nordland county in Norway. With more than 50,000 inhabitants, it is the second largest city in Northern Norway, on a peninsula facing the open sea, and infamously windy.
- Type: municipality of Norway with 9,740 residents
- Description: municipality in Nordland, Norway
- Also known as: “1841” and “Fauske Municipality”
- Neighbors: Bodø
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fauske Church.
Fauske Church
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fauske and Finneid.
Fauske
Town
Fauske or Fuossko is a town in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is also the administrative centre of Fauske Municipality. The town is located on the shore of the Skjerstad Fjord, about 60 kilometres east of the town of Bodø and about 40 kilometres west of the border with Sweden.
Finneid
Suburb
Fauske
- Location: Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
67.2596° or 67° 15′ 35″ north
Longitude
15.3941° or 15° 23′ 39″ east
Population
9,740
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
Open location code
9FVQ795V+VJ
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fauske” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fauske”
- Albanian: “Fauske”
- Aragonese: “Fauske”
- Arpitan: “Fauske”
- Asturian: “Fauske”
- Basque: “Fauske”
- Bavarian: “Fauske”
- Bishnupriya: “ফৌস্কে”
- Breton: “Fauske”
- Bulgarian: “Фауске”
- Catalan: “Fauske”
- Cebuano: “Fauske (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Fauske”
- Chinese: “Fauske”
- Chinese: “弗于斯克”
- Corsican: “Fauske”
- Croatian: “Fauske”
- Czech: “Fauske”
- Danish: “Fauske Kommune”
- Danish: “Fauske”
- Dutch: “Fauske”
- Esperanto: “Fauske”
- Estonian: “Fauske”
- Finnish: “Fauske”
- French: “Fauske”
- Friulian: “Fauske”
- Galician: “Fauske”
- German: “Fauske”
- Hungarian: “Fauske”
- Icelandic: “Fauske”
- Ido: “Fauske”
- Indonesian: “Fauske”
- Interlingua: “Fauske”
- Interlingue: “Fauske”
- Irish: “Fauske”
- Italian: “Fauske”
- Japanese: “ファウスケ”
- Javanese: “Fauske”
- Kongo: “Fauske”
- Latin: “Fauske”
- Ligurian: “Fauske”
- Limburgan: “Fauske”
- Low German: “Fauske”
- Low German: “Kommun Fauske”
- Lule Sami: “Fuosko suohkan”
- Lule Sami: “Fuossko”
- Luxembourgish: “Fauske”
- Malagasy: “Fauske”
- Malay: “Fauske”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fauske”
- Minangkabau: “Fauske”
- Narom: “Fauske”
- Neapolitan: “Fauske”
- Northern Sami: “Fauske”
- Northern Sami: “Fuoisku”
- Northern Sami: “Fuossko”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fauske kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fauske”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fauske kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Fauske”
- Norwegian: “Fauske”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fauske”
- Persian: “فاوسکه”
- Picard: “Fauske”
- Piemontese: “Fauske”
- Polish: “Fauske”
- Portuguese: “Fauske”
- Romanian: “Fauske”
- Romansh: “Fauske”
- Russian: “Фёуске”
- Sardinian: “Fauske”
- Scots: “Fauske”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fauske”
- Serbian: “Fauske”
- Serbian: “Фауске”
- Sicilian: “Fauske”
- Slovak: “Fauske”
- Slovenian: “Fauske”
- Spanish: “Fauske”
- Swahili: “Fauske”
- Swedish: “Fauske kommun”
- Swedish: “Fauske”
- Swiss German: “Fauske”
- Turkish: “Fauske”
- Urdu: “فوسکے بلدیہ”
- Venetian: “Fauske”
- Vietnamese: “Fauske”
- Vlaams: “Fauske”
- Volapük: “Fauske”
- Walloon: “Fauske”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fauske”
- Welsh: “Fauske”
- Wolof: “Fauske”
- Zulu: “Fauske”
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