Leknes
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Photo: Paalsvendsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hol Church and Buksnes Church.
Hol Church
Church
Hol Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vestvågøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the southeastern edge of the town of Leknes on the island of Vestvågøya.
Buksnes Church
Church
Photo: Holav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buksnes Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vestvågøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Gravdal on the island of Vestvågøya. Buksnes Church is situated 4 km southwest of Leknes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gravdal and Napp.
Gravdal
Village
Photo: Hakrist, Public domain.
Gravdal is a village in Vestvågøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the island of Vestvågøya in the central part of the Lofoten archipelago, north of the Arctic Circle. Gravdal is situated 4 km southwest of Leknes.
Napp
Village
Napp is a small fishing village in Flakstad Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located on the northern part of the island of Flakstadøya in the Lofoten archipelago. Napp is situated 8 km west of Leknes.
Steine
Village
Steine is a fishing village in Vestvågøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village lies on the south side of the island of Vestvågøya, about 3 kilometres west of the village of Stamsund. Steine is situated 8 km southeast of Leknes.
Leknes
- Type: Town with 3,780 residents
- Description: settlement in Vestvågøy Municipality, Norway
- Categories: urban area in Norway and locality
- Location: Vestvågøy Municipality, Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
68.14747° or 68° 8′ 51″ northLongitude
13.61153° or 13° 36′ 42″ eastPopulation
3,780Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
LKNUnited Nations Location Code
NO LKNOpen location code
9FWM4JW6+XJOpenStreetMap ID
node 31264104OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
7626400Wikidata ID
Q1993766
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Veps—“Leknes” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Leknes”
- Cebuano: “Leknes (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Leknes”
- Chinese: “莱克内斯”
- Chinese: “萊克內斯”
- Danish: “Leknes”
- Dutch: “Leknes”
- Finnish: “Leknes”
- French: “Leknes”
- German: “Leknes”
- Hebrew: “לקנס”
- Italian: “Leknes”
- Japanese: “レクネス”
- Northern Sami: “Liehkke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leknes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leknes”
- Norwegian: “Leknes”
- Persian: “لکنس”
- Portuguese: “Leknes”
- Romanian: “Leknes”
- Russian: “Лекнес”
- Serbian: “Лекнес”
- Spanish: “Leknes”
- Swedish: “Leknes”
- Turkish: “Leknes”
- Veps: “Leknes”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Leknes”. Photo: Paalsvendsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.