Norway
Svalbard
Spitsbergen

Longyearbyen

Longyearbyen, is the largest populated area, and capital of the region of . The settlement is generally regarded as the northernmost town in the world as well as the most easily accessed frontier in the Arctic, and is an ideal base for the greater exploration of and the high Arctic.
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  • Type: City with 2,140 residents
  • Description: town and administrative center in Svalbard, Norway
  • Also known as: “Longyear City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Svalbard Museum and Longyearbyen Hospital.

Museum
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a museum in Longyearbyen, the largest town in the archipelago. The museum displays artifacts from the history of Svalbard since its settlement, and exhibits of local plants and animals.

Hospital
Photo: Banja&FransMulder, CC BY 3.0.

Church
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is a of the Church of Norway in municipality in . It is located in the village of Longyearbyen. It is the church for the Svalbard parish which is part of the Tromsø domprosti in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nybyen.

Suburb
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is a small settlement located on the southern outskirts of Longyearbyen, on the island of , in the archipelago of . The name is Norwegian and translates as The New Town.

Longyearbyen

Latitude
78.2232° or 78° 13′ 23″ north
Longitude
15.6464° or 15° 38′ 47″ east
Population
2,140
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
LYR
United Nations Location Code
SJ LYR
Open location code
CFCQ6JFW+7G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269194842
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2729907
Wiki­data ID
Q25923
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Longyearbyen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Longyearbyen”
  • Albanian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Arabic: “لونغياربين”
  • Arabic: “لونغياربيين”
  • Arabic: “لونغيرباين”
  • Arabic: “لونغييربين”
  • Arabic: “لونقييربين”
  • Aragonese: “Longyearbyen”
  • Armenian: “Լոնգյիր”
  • Arpitan: “Longyearbyen”
  • Asturian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lonqyirbyuen”
  • Basque: “Longyearbyen”
  • Bavarian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Belarusian: “Лонгйір”
  • Bengali: “লঙ্গয়েবায়েন”
  • Bosnian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Breton: “Longyearbyen”
  • Bulgarian: “Лонгийр”
  • Bulgarian: “Лонгийър”
  • Bulgarian: “Лонгирбюен”
  • Catalan: “Longyearbyen”
  • Cebuano: “Longyearbyen”
  • Chinese: “Longyearbyen”
  • Chinese: “朗伊尔城”
  • Chinese: “朗伊爾城”
  • Chuvash: “Лонгьир”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Longyearbyen”
  • Croatian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Czech: “Longyearbyen”
  • Danish: “Longyearbyen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Longyearbyen”
  • Dutch: “Longyearbyen”
  • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “Longyearbyen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لونجييربين”
  • Erzya: “Лонгйирбюен ош”
  • Esperanto: “Longjerurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Longyearbyen”
  • Estonian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Faroese: “Longyearbýur”
  • Finnish: “Longyearbyen”
  • French: “Longyearbyen”
  • Friulian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Galician: “Longyearbyen”
  • Georgian: “ლონგიირბიუენი”
  • Georgian: “ლონგიირი”
  • Georgian: “ლონგირი”
  • German: “Longyearbyen”
  • Greek: “Longyearbyen”
  • Greek: “Λονγκγέαρμπγεν”
  • Greek: “Λόνγκγιαρμπιεν”
  • Gujarati: “લોંગઈઅરબીએન”
  • Hebrew: “לונגיירבין”
  • Hungarian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Icelandic: “Longyearbyen”
  • Iloko: “Longyearbyen”
  • Indonesian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Interlingua: “Longyearburgo”
  • Interlingue: “Longyearbyen”
  • Irish: “Longyearbyen”
  • Italian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Japanese: “ロングイェールビーン”
  • Japanese: “ロングイェールビエン”
  • Japanese: “ロングイヤービエン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Longyearbyen”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಂಗ್ಇಯರ್ಬೈನ್”
  • Kashubian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Kazakh: “Longyearbyen”
  • Kazakh: “Лонгйир”
  • Kölsch: “Longyearbyen”
  • Korean: “롱위에아르뷔엔”
  • Korean: “롱이어비엔”
  • Kurdish: “Longyearbyen”
  • Ladino: “Longyearbyen”
  • Latgalian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Latin: “Longyearbyen”
  • Latvian: “Longjerbīene”
  • Latvian: “Longjērbīene”
  • Latvian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Limburgan: “Longyearbyen”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Longyearbyen”
  • Lithuanian: “Longirbjoenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Longjyrbienas”
  • Lithuanian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Liv: “Longyearbyen”
  • Low German: “Longyearbyen”
  • Lower Silesian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Longyearbyen”
  • Macedonian: “Лонгјир”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Longyearbyen”
  • Malay: “Longyearbyen”
  • Manx: “Longyearbyen”
  • Maori: “Longyearbyen”
  • Marathi: “लॉन्गयेर्बाइन”
  • Mazanderani: “لانگیربین”
  • Megleno Romanian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Longyearbyen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Northern Sami: “Longyearbyen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Longyear”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Longyearbyen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Longyearbyen”
  • Norwegian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Novial: “Longyearbyen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Longyearbyen”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Langġēartūn”
  • Ossetian: “Лонгйир”
  • Ossetian: “Лонгйирбюен”
  • Ossetian: “Лонгйирбюэн”
  • Ossetian: “Лонгьир”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Longyearbyen”
  • Persian: “لانگیربین”
  • Persian: “لونگ‌یربین”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Longyearbyen”
  • Picard: “Longyearbyen”
  • Piemontese: “Longyearbyen”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Longyearbyen”
  • Polish: “Longyearbyen”
  • Portuguese: “Longuiarbien”
  • Portuguese: “Longyearbyen”
  • Prussian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Pushto: “لانګیربین”
  • Romanian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Romansh: “Longyearbyen”
  • Russian: “Лонгеарбиен”
  • Russian: “Лонгербюйн”
  • Russian: “Лонгиир”
  • Russian: “Лонгийербюен”
  • Russian: “Лонгйир”
  • Russian: “Лонгъир”
  • Russian: “Лонгьербьен”
  • Russian: “Лонгьербюен”
  • Russian: “Лонгьир”
  • Russian: “Столица Шпицбергена”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Longyearbyen”
  • Scots: “Longyearbyen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Longyearbyen”
  • Serbian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Serbian: “Лонгјербијен”
  • Serbian: “Лонгјир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Silesian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Sinhala: “ලෝන්ග්ඉයර්බයින්”
  • Slovak: “Longyearbyen”
  • Slovenian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Spanish: “Longyearbyen”
  • Swahili: “Longyearbyen”
  • Swedish: “Longyearbyen”
  • Swiss German: “Longyearbyen”
  • Tachelhit: “Longyearbyen”
  • Tajik: “Longyearbyen”
  • Tamil: “லாங்யியர்பியன்”
  • Telugu: “లాంగ్‌యియర్‌బయెన్”
  • Telugu: “లాంగ్యియర్బైయన్”
  • Thai: “ลองเยียร์เบียน”
  • Turkish: “Longyearbyen”
  • Uighur: “Longyearbyen”
  • Ukrainian: “Лонг’їр”
  • Ukrainian: “Лонгїр”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Urdu: “Longyearbyen”
  • Urdu: “لانگایربین”
  • Uzbek: “Longyirbiyen shahri”
  • Venetian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Veps: “Longyearbyen”
  • Vietnamese: “Longyearbyen”
  • Vlaams: “Longyearbyen”
  • Volapük: “Longyearbyen”
  • Võro: “Longyearbyen”
  • Votic: “Longyearbyen”
  • Walloon: “Longyearbyen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Longyearbyen”
  • Welsh: “Longyearbyen”
  • Western Frisian: “Longyearbyen”
  • Wolof: “Longyearbyen”
  • Wu Chinese: “朗伊爾城”
  • Yue Chinese: “朗伊爾城”
  • Zeeuws: “Longyearbyen”

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