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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Norway with 2,730 residents
- Description: municipality in Troms, Norway
- Also known as: “5424” and “Lyngen Municipality”
- Neighbors: Karlsøy, Skjervøy, and Tromsø
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lyngen Church and Rottenvik power station.
Lyngen Church
Church
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Lyngen Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Lyngen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Lyngseidet. It is the main church for the Lyngen parish which is part of the Nord-Troms prosti in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland.
Rottenvik power station
Industrial building
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Rottenvik power station is an industrial building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lyngseidet.
Lyngseidet
Village
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Lyngseidet, Muotki or Ivgumuotki, or Muotka is the administrative centre of Lyngen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is located on an isthmus that is about 3 km wide between an arm of the Ullsfjorden and the Lyngenfjorden.
Lyngen
- Location: Troms, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Lyngen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lyngen”
- Armenian: “Լյունգեն”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Lyngen (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Lyngen kommune”
- Asturian: “Lyngen”
- Basque: “Lyngen”
- Bishnupriya: “লয়ঙেন”
- Catalan: “Lyngen”
- Cebuano: “Lyngen (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Lyngen”
- Chinese: “Lyngen”
- Chinese: “灵恩”
- Chinese: “靈恩”
- Danish: “Lyngen Kommune”
- Danish: “Lyngen”
- Dutch: “Lyngen”
- Esperanto: “Lyngen”
- Estonian: “Lyngeni vald”
- Finnish: “Jyykeä”
- Finnish: “Lyngen”
- 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”
- Northern Sami: “Lyngen”
- Northern Sami: “Yykeä”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ivggu gielda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ivgu suohkan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lyngen kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lyngen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ivgu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Lyngen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lyngen kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yykeä”
- Norwegian: “Lyngen”
- Polish: “Lyngen”
- Portuguese: “Lyngen”
- Romanian: “Comuna Lyngen”
- Romanian: “Lyngen”
- Russian: “Люнген”
- Spanish: “Lyngen”
- Swahili: “Lyngen”
- Swedish: “Lyngen kommun”
- Swedish: “Lyngens kommun”
- Turkish: “Lyngen”
- Vietnamese: “Lyngen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lyngen”
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