Rafsbotn
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, , or is a village in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village sits at the southeast end of the Altafjorden, along the European route E6 highway, about northeast of the town of Alta. The name comes from the Sami place name which means a clay seabed.
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Rafsbotn Kapell.jpeg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Rafsbotn Chapel
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 11
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Finnmark#Norway
- Settlement.pushpin_label
- Rafsbotn
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Alta
- Population
- 478
- Area
- 0.39
- Elevation
- 24
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- native label
- Reaššvuonna
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Encyclopedic overview
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, , or is a village in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village sits at the southeast end of the Altafjorden, along the European route E6 highway, about northeast of the town of Alta. The name comes from the Sami place name which means a clay seabed.
The village has a population (2023) of 456 and a population density of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rafsbotn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations