Lyngen
Lyngen is a municipality in the Region of Troms in Northern Norway. The municipality is characterized by the towering, alpine mountains that rise 1833 metres right up from the Arctic Ocean.
Photo: Algkalv, Public domain.
- Type: municipality of Norway with 2,730 residents
- Description: municipality in Troms, Norway
- Also known as: “5424”, “conceyu de Lyngen (Noruega)”, “Ivggu gielda”, “Ivgu suohkan”, “Jyykeä”, “Kommunen Lyngen”, “Lyngen kommun”, and “Lyngen Municipality”
- Neighbors: Karlsøy, Skjervøy, and Tromsø
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lyngen Church and Rottenvik power station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lyngseidet.
Lyngseidet
Village
Photo: Algkalv, Public domain.Lyngen
- Location: Troms, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
69.5762° or 69° 34′ 34″ north
Longitude
20.217° or 20° 13′ 1″ east
Population
2,730
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
9GX2H6G8+FR
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Lyngen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lyngen”
- Armenian: “Լյունգեն”
- Asturian: “Lyngen”
- Basque: “Lyngen”
- Bishnupriya: “লয়ঙেন”
- Catalan: “Lyngen”
- Cebuano: “Lyngen (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Lyngen”
- Chinese: “灵恩”
- Chinese: “靈恩”
- Danish: “Lyngen Kommune”
- Danish: “Lyngen”
- Dutch: “Lyngen”
- Esperanto: “Lyngen”
- Estonian: “Lyngeni vald”
- Finnish: “Yykeä”
- French: “Lyngen”
- German: “Gemeinde Lyngen”
- German: “Lyngen”
- Irish: “Lyngen”
- Italian: “Lyngen”
- Kven Finnish: “Yykeän komuuni)”
- Latin: “Lyngen”
- Limburgan: “Lyngen”
- Low German: “Kommun Lyngen”
- Malay: “Lyngen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lyngen”
- Northern Sami: “Ivggu suohkan”
- Northern Sami: “Ivgu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lyngen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lyngen kommune”
- Norwegian: “Lyngen”
- Polish: “Lyngen”
- Portuguese: “Lyngen”
- Romanian: “Comuna Lyngen”
- Romanian: “Lyngen”
- Russian: “Люнген”
- Spanish: “Lyngen”
- Swahili: “Lyngen”
- Swedish: “Lyngens kommun”
- Turkish: “Lyngen”
- Urdu: “لینگن بلدیہ”
- Vietnamese: “Lyngen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lyngen”
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