Gibostad
Sign in to saveor is a village on the large island of Senja in Senja Municipality in Troms county, Norway. Gibostad is a former trading centre, located about north of the Gisund Bridge. Many of the buildings in the harbour area are about 200 years old. The soil is very fertile and therefore suitable for farming, which is why there is an agricultural school at Senja Upper Secondary School. The lake Lysvatnet is located just west of the village.
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Gibostad (1).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of the village
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 11
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Troms#Norway
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- Gibostad
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Norway
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northern Norway
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Troms
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Midt-Troms
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- Municipality
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Senja Municipality
- Population
- 316
- Area
- 0.4
- Elevation
- 8
- Capital of
- Lenvik
- Image
- Gibostad (1).jpg
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- Gibostad
- located in/on physical feature
- Senja
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or is a village on the large island of Senja in Senja Municipality in Troms county, Norway. Gibostad is a former trading centre, located about north of the Gisund Bridge. Many of the buildings in the harbour area are about 200 years old. The soil is very fertile and therefore suitable for farming, which is why there is an agricultural school at Senja Upper Secondary School. The lake Lysvatnet is located just west of the village.
The village has a population (2023) of 312 and a population density of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gibostad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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