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Ankenes
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Ankenesstranda or Ankenesstrand (often simply called "Ankenes") is a village area in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village area is a western suburb of the town of Narvik and just east of the village of Håkvik. The village lies at the confluence of the large Ofotfjorden and the smaller Beisfjorden. The European route E06 highway runs through the village before crossing the Beisfjord Bridge into the town of Narvik. In 2016, there were about 3,000 inhabitants of the village.
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- Demonym
- ankenesværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Narvik Municipality
- Elevation
- 25
- Body of water
- Beisfjorden
- Capital of
- Ankenes Municipality
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- native label
- Oŋká
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Ankenesstranda or Ankenesstrand (often simply called "Ankenes") is a village area in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village area is a western suburb of the town of Narvik and just east of the village of Håkvik. The village lies at the confluence of the large Ofotfjorden and the smaller Beisfjorden. The European route E06 highway runs through the village before crossing the Beisfjord Bridge into the town of Narvik. In 2016, there were about 3,000 inhabitants of the village.
The village was the administrative centre of the old Ankenes Municipality which existed from 1884 until 1974.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ankenes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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