Kirkenes

Kirkenes is a town in the region of , far east near the border, more or less in the end of mainland Norway. This is the last port for Hurtigruten and the end of Norway's main road E6, 2,500 km from Oslo and 3,120 km from .
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  • Type: Town with 3,420 residents
  • Description: town in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Norway
  • Also known as: “Girkonjarga”, “Girkonjárga”, and “Kirkkoniemi”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kirkenes Church.

Church
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is a parish church of the Church of Norway in in county, . It is located in the town of Kirkenes, just off the European route E06 highway.

Kirkenes

Latitude
69.7271° or 69° 43′ 38″ north
Longitude
30.0449° or 30° 2′ 42″ east
Population
3,420
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
KKN
United Nations Location Code
NO KKN
Open location code
9GXGP2GV+VX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27129690
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
779303
Wiki­data ID
Q209423
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kirkenes” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ريف كيركينيس”
  • Arabic: “شيركنيس”
  • Armenian: “Կիրկենես”
  • Asturian: “Kirkenes”
  • Banjar: “Kirkenes”
  • Bashkir: “Киркенес”
  • Belarusian: “Кіркенес”
  • Bengali: “কিরকনেস”
  • Bulgarian: “Хиркенес”
  • Catalan: “Kirkenes”
  • Cebuano: “Kirkenes (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Kirkenes”
  • Chinese: “希尔克内斯”
  • Chinese: “希爾克內斯”
  • Czech: “Kirkenes”
  • Danish: “Kirkenes”
  • Dutch: “Kirkenes”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيركنيس”
  • Esperanto: “Kirkenes”
  • Estonian: “Girkonjárga”
  • Estonian: “Kirkenes”
  • Estonian: “Kirkkoniemi”
  • Finnish: “Kirkkoniemi”
  • French: “Kirkenes”
  • German: “Kirkenes”
  • Greek: “Κίρκενες”
  • Hebrew: “קירקנס”
  • Hungarian: “Girkonjárga”
  • Hungarian: “Kirkenes”
  • Hungarian: “Kirkoniemi”
  • Icelandic: “Kirkenes”
  • Icelandic: “Kirkjunes”
  • Inari Sami: “Kirkkonjargâ”
  • Indonesian: “Kirkenes”
  • Interlingue: “Kirkenes”
  • Italian: “Kirkenes”
  • Japanese: “キルケネス”
  • Japanese: “チルケネス”
  • Japanese: “ヒルケネス”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kirkenes”
  • Korean: “시르케네스”
  • Korean: “키르케네스”
  • Kven Finnish: “Kirkkoniemi”
  • Latin: “Kirkenes”
  • Limburgan: “Kirkenes”
  • Lithuanian: “Kirkenesas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kirkenes”
  • Moksha: “Киркэнэс”
  • Northern Sami: “Girkonjárga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirkenes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Girkonjárga”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kirkenes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kirkkoniemi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kyrkjenes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Киркенес”
  • Norwegian: “Kirkenes”
  • Ossetian: “Киркенес”
  • Persian: “کیرکنس”
  • Polish: “Kirkenes”
  • Portuguese: “Kirkenes”
  • Romanian: “Kirkenes”
  • Russian: “Киркенес”
  • Serbian: “Ћирћенес”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ǩeârkknjargg”
  • Slovak: “Kirkenes”
  • Slovenian: “Kirkenes”
  • Spanish: “Kirkenes”
  • Swedish: “Kirkenes”
  • Thai: “ชีร์เกอเนส”
  • Turkish: “Kirkenes”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіркенес”
  • Urdu: “کرکنیس”
  • Vietnamese: “Kirkenes”

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