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Hammerfest

Hammerfest in 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hammerfest Airport and Hammerfest Church.

Aerodrome
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is a regional airport at Prærien just outside the town of Hammerfest in in county, . 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.

Church
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is a of the Church of Norway in in county, . It is located in the town of Hammerfest.

Museum
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The for Finnmark and North Troms is a museum in the town of Hammerfest, . As was much of Northern , the entire town of Hammerfest was razed to the ground by the retreating Nazi German military forces at the end of World War II.

Hammerfest

Latitude
70.6628° or 70° 39′ 46″ north
Longitude
23.6831° or 23° 40′ 59″ east
Population
8,000
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
IATA airport code
HFT
United Nations Location Code
NO HFT
Open location code
CG25MM7M+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31264092
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
779683
Wiki­data ID
Q721374
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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: “ハンマーフェスト”
  • Japanese: “ハンメルフェスト (町)”
  • Japanese: “ハンメルフェスト”
  • Japanese: “ハンメルフェスト町”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “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: “Hammerfest (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаммерфест (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаммерфест”
  • Ukrainian: “Хаммерфест (місто)”
  • Venetian: “Hammerfest”
  • Vietnamese: “Hammerfest”
  • Vlaams: “Hammerfest”
  • Volapük: “Hammerfest”
  • Walloon: “Hammerfest”
  • Welsh: “Hammerfest”
  • Wolof: “Hammerfest”
  • Zulu: “Hammerfest”

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