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Finnmark

Alta

Alta is the largest town in the county of , in . Alta is the regional hub and has some 21,000 inhabitants. The town is found at the inner or eastern end of Altafjorden.
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  • Type: Town with 16,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in Finnmark, Norway
  • Also known as: “5403”, “Alattio”, “Áltá”, “Alta Municipality”, and “Alta, Norway”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alta Airport and Alta Church.

Aerodrome
Photo: Inisheer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an international in the city of in Alta Municipality in county, . The airport is located at , 4 kilometers east of the city center. is situated 3½ km east of Alta.

Church
Photo: Chell Hill, CC BY 2.5.
is a of the Church of Norway in Alta Municipality in county, . It is located in the area in the .

Photo: Karl Brodowsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.
are located in and around Alta Municipality in county in . Since the first carvings were discovered in 1973, more than 6,000 carvings have been found on several sites around Alta. is situated 4 km southwest of Alta.

Alta

Latitude
69.9666° or 69° 57′ 60″ north
Longitude
23.2733° or 23° 16′ 24″ east
Population
16,300
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Open location code
9GX5X78F+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198296889
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
780946
Wiki­data ID
Q6535
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Alta” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Alta”
  • Arabic: “ألتا”
  • Armenian: “Ալթա”
  • Armenian: “Ալտա Ֆլորեստա”
  • Asturian: “Alta kommune”
  • Asturian: “Alta”
  • Asturian: “conceyu d’Alta (Noruega)”
  • Banjar: “Alta, Norwegia”
  • Banjar: “Alta”
  • Bashkir: “Алта”
  • Basque: “Alta”
  • Bulgarian: “Алта”
  • Catalan: “Alta”
  • Cebuano: “Alta (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Alta”
  • Chinese: “阿塔”
  • Chinese: “阿尔塔”
  • Chinese: “阿爾塔”
  • Croatian: “Alta”
  • Czech: “Alta”
  • Danish: “Alta”
  • Dutch: “Alta”
  • Esperanto: “Alta”
  • Estonian: “Alta kommuun”
  • Estonian: “Alta vald”
  • Finnish: “Alattio”
  • Finnish: “Alta”
  • French: “Alta”
  • German: “Alta”
  • Hebrew: “אלטה”
  • Hungarian: “Alta”
  • Icelandic: “Alta”
  • Indonesian: “Alta, Norwegia”
  • Indonesian: “Alta”
  • Irish: “Alta”
  • Italian: “Alta”
  • Japanese: “アルタ”
  • Javanese: “Alta, Norway”
  • Javanese: “Alta”
  • Korean: “알타”
  • Latin: “Alta”
  • Limburgan: “Alta”
  • Lithuanian: “Alta”
  • Low German: “Kommun Alta”
  • Macedonian: “Алта”
  • Malay: “Alta, Norway”
  • Malay: “Alta”
  • Northern Sami: “Álaheadju suohkan”
  • Northern Sami: “Álaheadju”
  • Northern Sami: “Alattio”
  • Northern Sami: “Alta kommune”
  • Northern Sami: “Alta”
  • Northern Sami: “Áltá”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alta kommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alta kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alta”
  • Norwegian: “Alta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alta”
  • Persian: “التا، نروژ”
  • Persian: “التا، نوروای”
  • Polish: “Alta”
  • Portuguese: “Alta”
  • Romanian: “Alta”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Alta”
  • Russian: “Алта”
  • Russian: “Альта”
  • Scots: “Alta”
  • Serbian: “Alta”
  • Serbian: “Алта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alta”
  • Slovak: “Alta”
  • Slovenian: “Alta, Norveška”
  • Slovenian: “Alta”
  • Spanish: “Alta”
  • Swahili: “Alta”
  • Swedish: “Alta kommun”
  • Swedish: “Alta”
  • Swedish: “Alten”
  • Swiss German: “Alta”
  • Turkish: “Alta”
  • Ukrainian: “Алта”
  • Vietnamese: “Alta, Finnmark”
  • Vietnamese: “Alta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alta, Norway”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alta”
  • “Alta”

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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 “Alta”. Photo: Jensvins, CC BY-SA 3.0.