Lakselv
Lakselv, Leavdnja or Lemmijoki is the largest village and administrative centre of Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies at the southern end of the large Porsangerfjorden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 2,250 residents
- Description: settlement in Porsanger Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Lakeselv”, “Leavdnja”, and “Lemmijoki”
Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lakselv Airport and Lakselv Church.
Lakselv Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Thor Thorsson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lakselv Airport is an international airport located at Banak, 1.5 kilometers north of the village of Lakselv in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
Lakselv Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Lakselv Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Lakselv.
Lakselv
- Categories: urban area in Norway and locality
- Location: Porsanger, Finnmark, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
70.0525° or 70° 3′ 9″ northLongitude
24.9607° or 24° 57′ 38″ eastPopulation
2,250Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
LKLUnited Nations Location Code
NO LKLOpen location code
CG263X26+X7OpenStreetMap ID
node 433318874OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
779082Wikidata ID
Q531041
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Urdu—“Lakselv” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Lakselv”
- Belarusian: “Лаксэльв”
- Bulgarian: “Лакселв”
- Catalan: “Lakselv”
- Cebuano: “Lakselv (kapital sa munisipyo sa Noruwega)”
- Cebuano: “Lakselv”
- Chinese: “拉克塞爾夫”
- Danish: “Lakselv”
- Dutch: “Lakselv”
- Finnish: “Lemmijoki”
- French: “Lakselv”
- German: “Lakselv”
- Hungarian: “Lakselv”
- Italian: “Lakselv”
- Japanese: “ラクセルヴ”
- Javanese: “Lakselv”
- Kven Finnish: “Lemmijoki”
- Malay: “Lakselv”
- Northern Sami: “Leavdnja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lakselv”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lakselv”
- Norwegian: “Lakselv”
- Polish: “Lakselv”
- Portuguese: “Lakselv”
- Romanian: “Lakselv”
- Russian: “Лаксэльв”
- Spanish: “Lakselv”
- Swedish: “Lakselv”
- Ukrainian: “Лаксельв”
- Urdu: “لاکسیلو”
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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 Wikipedia page “Lakselv”. Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.