Lofoten
Lofoten is a group of islands in the northern part of Norway. With its postcard-looking small fishing villages nestled in fjords dotting a very rugged coast with abrupt peaks rising directly from the ocean, the archipelago is often described as one of the most scenic parts of Norway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Værøy.
Værøy
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Værøy is a small island in the Lofoten archipelago. The island has a mountainous ridge running through the center and flat farmland below the mountains. It is famous both for its scenery and the abundance of puffins who nest here over the summer.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sildpollnes Church and Kvitfossen power station.
Sildpollnes Church
Church
Photo: Ximonic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sildpollnes Church is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Vågan Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the Sildpollneset peninsula on the island of Austvågøya.
Kvitfossen power station
Industrial building
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kvitfossen power station is an industrial building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Laupstad and Liland.
Laupstad
Quarter
Photo: David Torras, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Laupstad is a village in Vågan Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the island of Austvågøya at the end of the Austnesfjorden, about 3 kilometres north of the village of Liland.
Liland
Hamlet
Liland is a village in Vågan Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the island of Austvågøya, about 3 kilometres south of the village of Laupstad on the eastern bank of the Austnesfjorden.
Lofoten
- Type: Archipelago
- Description: archipelago and traditional district in Nordland county, Norway
- Also known as: “Lofoden Islands” and “Lofoten Islands”
- Categories: island group, region, and landform
- Location: Vågan, Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
68.3331° or 68° 19′ 59″ northLongitude
14.6664° or 14° 39′ 59″ eastPopulation
24,500Open location code
9FWP8MM8+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 4780456733GeoNames ID
3147088Wikidata ID
Q186822
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lofoten” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر لوفوتن”
- Armenian: “Լոֆոտենյան կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Islles Lofoten”
- Azerbaijani: “Lofoten adaları”
- Basque: “Lofoten uharteak”
- Basque: “Lofoten uhartedia”
- Basque: “Lofoten”
- Belarusian: “Лафатэнскія астравы”
- Bengali: “লোফোটেন”
- Breton: “Lofoten”
- Bulgarian: “Лофотенски острови”
- Catalan: “Illes Lofoten”
- Catalan: “Lofoten”
- Cebuano: “Lofoten”
- Chinese: “罗弗敦群岛”
- Chinese: “羅弗敦群島”
- Czech: “Lofotské ostrovy”
- Czech: “Lofoty”
- Danish: “Lofoten”
- Dutch: “Lofodden”
- Dutch: “Lofoten”
- Esperanto: “Lofoten”
- Esperanto: “Lofotoj”
- Estonian: “Lofoodid”
- Faroese: “Lofoten”
- Finnish: “Lofootit”
- Finnish: “Lofoten”
- French: “Iles Lofoten”
- French: “îles Lofoten”
- French: “Îles Lofoten”
- French: “Lofoten”
- Galician: “Illas Lofoten”
- Galician: “Lofoten”
- German: “Lofoten”
- Greek: “Λοφότεν”
- Hebrew: “לופוטן”
- Hungarian: “Lofoten”
- Icelandic: “Lófót”
- Icelandic: “Lofoten”
- Icelandic: “Lófóten”
- Ido: “Lofoten insuli”
- Ido: “Lofoten”
- Interlingue: “Lofoten Insules”
- Irish: “Lofoten”
- Italian: “Isole Lofoten”
- Italian: “Lofoten”
- Japanese: “ロフォーテン諸島”
- Javanese: “Lofoten”
- Kazakh: “Лофотен аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Лофотен аралдары”
- Korean: “로포텐 제도”
- Latin: “Lofoten”
- Latvian: “Lofotu salas”
- Lithuanian: “Lofotenas”
- Lithuanian: “Lofoteno salos”
- Luxembourgish: “Lofoten”
- Macedonian: “Лофотен”
- Macedonian: “Лофотенски Острови”
- Macedonian: “Луфутен”
- Malay: “Lofoten”
- Malayalam: “ലോഫോടെൻ”
- Northern Frisian: “Lofooten”
- Northern Sami: “Lofoten”
- Northern Sami: “Lofuohta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lofoten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lofotryggen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lofoten”
- Norwegian: “Lofoten”
- Ossetian: “Лофотен”
- Ossetian: “Лофотенаг сакъадæхтæ”
- Ossetian: “Лофотены сакъадæхтæ”
- Persian: “لوفوتن”
- Polish: “Lofoten”
- Polish: “Lofoty”
- Portuguese: “Ilha lofoten”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas lofoten”
- Portuguese: “Lofoten”
- Romanian: “Lofoten”
- Russian: “Лофотен”
- Russian: “Лофотенские острова”
- Russian: “Лофотены”
- Russian: “Луфутен”
- Scots: “Lofoten”
- Serbian: “Lofotska ostrva”
- Serbian: “Лофотен”
- Serbian: “Лофотска острва”
- Slovak: “Lofoty”
- Slovenian: “Lofoti”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوفوتن”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de Lofoten”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Lofoten”
- Spanish: “Islas Lofoten”
- Spanish: “Lofoten”
- Swedish: “Lofoten”
- Thai: “ลูฟูเติน”
- Turkish: “Lofoten”
- Ukrainian: “Лофотенські острови”
- Uzbek: “Lofoten orollari”
- Venetian: “Isole Lofoten”
- Venetian: “Isołe Lofoten”
- Venetian: “Ìxołe Lofoten”
- Venetian: “Ìzołe Lofoten”
- Venetian: “Lofoten”
- Vietnamese: “Lofoten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lofoten (purô)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lofoten”
- Western Frisian: “Lofoten”
- Western Panjabi: “لوفوٹن”
- Wu Chinese: “罗弗敦群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “羅弗敦群島”
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