Hammerfest Municipality
Hammerfest is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality being the town of Hammerfest which is considered the northernmost town in the world with more than 5,000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Norway with 11,400 residents
- Description: municipality in Finnmark, Norway
- Also known as: “5406”, “Hammerfest”, and “Hammerfest (Norway)”
- Neighbors: Alta
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hammerfest Airport and Hammerfest Church.
Hammerfest Airport
Aerodrome
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Hammerfest Airport is a regional airport at Prærien just outside the town of Hammerfest in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is operated by the state-owned Avinor and handled 145,396 passengers in 2014, making it the third-busiest regional airport in the country.
Hammerfest Church
Church
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Hammerfest Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Hammerfest.
Museum of Reconstruction
Museum
The Museum of Reconstruction for Finnmark and North Troms is a museum in the town of Hammerfest, Norway. As was much of Northern Norway, the entire town of Hammerfest was razed to the ground by the retreating Nazi German military forces at the end of World War II.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hammerfest.
Hammerfest
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Hammerfest in Finnmark lays claim to being the northernmost town in the world, with over 9,000 inhabitants at a latitude above 70°. There are some villages farther north, but none larger than 2,000 people. Hammerfest is one of the capitals of Sami culture.
Hammerfest Municipality
- Location: Finnmark, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Hammerfest Municipality” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hammerfest”
- Albanian: “Hammerfest”
- Arabic: “هامرفست”
- Aragonese: “Hammerfest”
- Armenian: “Համերֆեսթ”
- Armenian: “Համերֆեստ”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Hammerfest (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Hammerfest kommune”
- Asturian: “Hammerfest”
- Basque: “Hammerfest”
- Belarusian: “Хамэрфэст”
- Bishnupriya: “হাম্মেরফিস্ট”
- Bulgarian: “Хамерфест”
- Catalan: “Hammerfest”
- Cebuano: “Hammerfest”
- Chinese: “Hammerfest”
- Chinese: “亨墨菲斯”
- Chinese: “亨墨非斯”
- Chinese: “哈默弗斯特”
- Chinese: “哈默菲斯特”
- Chinese: “哈默費斯特”
- Chinese: “哈默费斯特”
- Croatian: “Hammerfest”
- Czech: “Hammerfest (Norway)”
- Czech: “Hammerfest”
- Danish: “Hammerfest Kommune”
- Danish: “Hammerfest”
- Dutch: “Hammerfest”
- Esperanto: “Hammerfest”
- Estonian: “Hammerfest”
- Estonian: “Hammerfesti vald”
- Finnish: “Hammerfest”
- French: “Hammerfest”
- German: “Hammerfest (Norway)”
- German: “Hammerfest”
- Greek: “Χάμμερφεστ”
- Hebrew: “האמרפסט”
- Hebrew: “המרפסט”
- Hungarian: “Hammerfest község”
- Hungarian: “Hammerfest”
- Icelandic: “Hammerfest”
- Inari Sami: “Hammerfest”
- Indonesian: “Hámmárfeasta”
- Indonesian: “Hammerfest”
- Interlingue: “Hammerfest”
- Irish: “Hammerfest”
- Italian: “Hammerfest”
- Japanese: “ハンメルフェスト”
- Javanese: “Hammerfest”
- Korean: “함메르페스트”
- Latin: “Hammerfest”
- Limburgan: “Hammerfest”
- Lithuanian: “Hamerfestas”
- Lithuanian: “Hamerfesto savivaldybė”
- Low German: “Hammerfest”
- Low German: “Kommun Hammerfest”
- Luxembourgish: “Hammerfest”
- Macedonian: “Хамерфест”
- Malay: “Hammerfest”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hammerfest”
- Moksha: “Гаммэрфэст”
- Northern Sami: “Hámmárfeasta”
- Northern Sami: “Hámmerfeasta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hámmárfeasta suohkan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hámmárfeastta gielda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hámmárfeastta suohkan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hammerfest kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hammerfest”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hammerfest kommune”
- Norwegian: “Hammerfest”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hammerfest”
- Ossetian: “Хаммерфест”
- Persian: “هامرفست”
- Piemontese: “Hammerfest”
- Polish: “Hammerfest”
- Portuguese: “Hammerfest”
- Romanian: “Comuna Hammerfest”
- Romanian: “Hammerfest”
- Russian: “Хаммерфест”
- Scots: “Hammerfest”
- Serbian: “Hamerfest”
- Serbian: “Hammerfest”
- Serbian: “Хамерфест”
- Slovenian: “Hammerfest”
- Spanish: “Hammerfest”
- Swahili: “Hammerfest”
- Swedish: “Hámmárfeasta gielda”
- Swedish: “Hammerfest kommun”
- Swedish: “Hammerfest”
- Swedish: “Hammerfests kommun”
- Turkish: “Hammerfest”
- Ukrainian: “Hammerfest (коиуна Норвегії)”
- Ukrainian: “Гаммерфест (комуна)”
- Ukrainian: “Гаммерфест”
- Ukrainian: “Хаммерфест (комуна)”
- Vietnamese: “Hammerfest”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hammerfest”
- Western Frisian: “Hammerfest”
- Wu Chinese: “哈默弗斯特”
- “Hammerfest (Norway)”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Vegen and Elvetun.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hammerfest and Haugen.
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