Hammerfest
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.
- Type: Town with 8,010 residents
- Description: settlement in Hammerfest Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Hammerfest (місто)”, “Гаммерфест (місто)”, “Хаммерфест (місто)”, “ハンマーフェスト”, and “ハンメルフェスト町”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hammerfest Airport and Hammerfest Church.
Hammerfest
- Categories: city, urban area in Norway, and locality
- Location: Finnmark, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
70.6628° or 70° 39′ 46″ north
Longitude
23.6831° or 23° 40′ 59″ east
Population
8,010
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
IATA airport code
HFT
UN/LOCODE
NO HFT
Open location code
CG25MM7M+46
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Hammerfest” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hammerfest”
- Arabic: “هامرفست”
- Aragonese: “Hammerfest”
- Arpitan: “Hammerfest”
- Asturian: “Hammerfest”
- Basque: “Hammerfest”
- Bavarian: “Hammerfest”
- Bengali: “হামারফেস্ট”
- Bishnupriya: “হাম্মেরফিস্ট”
- Breton: “Hammerfest”
- Bulgarian: “Хамерфест”
- Catalan: “Hammerfest”
- Cebuano: “Hammerfest (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Hammerfest”
- Chinese: “亨墨菲斯”
- Corsican: “Hammerfest”
- Croatian: “Hammerfest”
- Czech: “Hammerfest”
- Danish: “Hammerfest”
- Dutch: “Hammerfest”
- Esperanto: “Hammerfest”
- Estonian: “Hammerfest”
- Estonian: “Hammerfesti vald”
- Finnish: “Hammerfest”
- French: “Hammerfest”
- Friulian: “Hammerfest”
- Galician: “Hammerfest”
- German: “Hammerfest”
- Hebrew: “המרפסט”
- Hungarian: “Hammerfest község”
- Hungarian: “Hammerfest”
- Icelandic: “Hammerfest”
- Ido: “Hammerfest”
- Indonesian: “Hammerfest”
- Interlingua: “Hammerfest”
- Interlingue: “Hammerfest”
- Irish: “Hammerfest”
- Italian: “Hammerfest”
- Japanese: “ハンメルフェスト (町)”
- Japanese: “ハンメルフェスト”
- Jèrriais: “Hammerfest”
- Kongo: “Hammerfest”
- Korean: “함메르페스트”
- Ligurian: “Hammerfest”
- Limburgan: “Hammerfest”
- Lithuanian: “Hamerfestas”
- Low German: “Hammerfest”
- Low German: “Kommun Hammerfest”
- Luxembourgish: “Hammerfest”
- Macedonian: “Хамерфест”
- Malagasy: “Hammerfest”
- Malay: “Hammerfest”
- Minangkabau: “Hammerfest”
- Neapolitan: “Hammerfest”
- Northern Sami: “Hámmárfeasta”
- Northern Sami: “Hámmárfeastta suohkan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hammerfest”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hammerfest kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hammerfest”
- Norwegian: “Hammerfest”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hammerfest”
- Ossetian: “Хаммерфест”
- Persian: “هامرفست”
- Picard: “Hammerfest”
- Piemontese: “Hammerfest”
- Polish: “Hammerfest”
- Portuguese: “Hammerfest”
- Romanian: “Hammerfest”
- Romansh: “Hammerfest”
- Russian: “Хаммерфест”
- Sardinian: “Hammerfest”
- Scots: “Hammerfest”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hammerfest”
- Serbian: “Hammerfest”
- Serbian: “Хамерфест”
- Sicilian: “Hammerfest”
- Slovak: “Hammerfest”
- Slovenian: “Hammerfest”
- South Azerbaijani: “هامرفست (شهر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “هامرفست”
- Spanish: “Hammerfest”
- Swahili: “Hammerfest”
- Swedish: “Hammerfest”
- Swiss German: “Hammerfest”
- Ukrainian: “Гаммерфест”
- Venetian: “Hammerfest”
- Vietnamese: “Hammerfest”
- Vlaams: “Hammerfest”
- Volapük: “Hammerfest”
- Walloon: “Hammerfest”
- Welsh: “Hammerfest”
- Wolof: “Hammerfest”
- Zulu: “Hammerfest”
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