Havøysund
Sign in to saveor is the administrative centre of the Måsøy Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the small island of Havøya, but is connected to the mainland by the Havøysund Bridge. The village has a population (2023) of 915 which gives the village a population density of .
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Place details
- Locality
- Havøysund - Ávanuorri
- Region
- Finnmark
- Country
- Norge
- Population
- 1,138
- Timezone
- Europe/Oslo
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Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Havøysund winter.jpg
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- View of the village
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- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 12
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- village
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- Finnmark#Norway
- Settlement.pushpin_label
- Havøysund
- 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
- Finnmark
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Vest-Finnmark
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Municipality
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or is the administrative centre of the Måsøy Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the small island of Havøya, but is connected to the mainland by the Havøysund Bridge. The village has a population (2023) of 915 which gives the village a population density of .
Havøysund is a fishing village offering a wide range of common services. There are fish processing factories, a boat yard, a petrol station, doctors, Havøysund Church, various shops, a sports hall, and museums. Havøysund also has a varied and lovely architecture; all the way along the beach one finds post-war houses, the so-called (the houses built after World War II all had the same design). Up in the valley, more houses were built in the decades after the war.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Havøysund” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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