Kirkenes
Kirkenes is a town in the Finnmark region of Norway, far east near the Russian 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 Trelleborg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,540 residents
- Description: town in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Girkonjarga”, “Girkonjárga”, and “Kirkkoniemi”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kirkenes Church.
Kirkenes Church
Church
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Kirkenes Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Kirkenes, just off the European route E06 highway.
Kirkenes
- Categories: urban area in Norway, city, administrative center, and locality
- Location: Sør-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
69.7271° or 69° 43′ 38″ northLongitude
30.0449° or 30° 2′ 42″ eastPopulation
3,540Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
KKNUnited Nations Location Code
NO KKNOpen location code
9GXGP2GV+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 27129690OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
779303Wikidata 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: “Girkonjarga”
- 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”
- Vietnamese: “Kirkenes”
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