Fauske
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fauske Church.
Fauske Church
Church
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fauske Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the town of Fauske. It is the church for the Fauske parish which is part of the Salten prosti in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Finneid.
Finneid
Suburb
Photo: Øyvind Rask, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Finneid is a neighborhood in the eastern part of the town of Fauske, located within Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The area had a population of 210.
Fauske
- Type: Town with 6,420 residents
- Description: settlement in Fauske Municipality, Norway
- Categories: urban area in Norway, administrative center, and locality
- Location: Fauske, Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
67.25886° or 67° 15′ 32″ northLongitude
15.3946° or 15° 23′ 41″ eastPopulation
6,420Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO FAUOpen location code
9FVQ795V+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 31264084OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Fauske” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fauske”
- Danish: “Fauske”
- Dutch: “Fauske”
- Finnish: “Fauske (taajama)”
- Finnish: “Fauske”
- German: “Fauske”
- Hungarian: “Fauske”
- Northern Sami: “Fuoiskku márkan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fauske”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fauske”
- Norwegian: “Fauske”
- Persian: “فاوسکه (شهر)”
- Persian: “فاوسکه”
- Pite Sami: “Fuajjsko”
- Pite Sami: “Fuassko”
- Russian: “Фауске”
- Russian: “Фёуске”
- Swedish: “Fauske”
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