Skibotn
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, , or is a village in Storfjord Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located on the southeastern shore of the Lyngen fjord in Northern Norway. The village area is located at the crossroads of the European route E6 and European route E8 highways. The distance by road to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost community in the western "arm" of Finland, is approximately . Skibotn Chapel is located in the village.
Key facts
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- Village
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- View of the village harbor
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- yes
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- 11
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- village
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- Troms#Norway
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- left
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- Skibotn
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- Country
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- Norway
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- Region
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- Northern Norway
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- County
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- Troms
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- District
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- Nord-Troms
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- Municipality
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, , or is a village in Storfjord Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located on the southeastern shore of the Lyngen fjord in Northern Norway. The village area is located at the crossroads of the European route E6 and European route E8 highways. The distance by road to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost community in the western "arm" of Finland, is approximately . Skibotn Chapel is located in the village.
The village has a population (2023) of 539 and a population density of . The modern day residents of Skibotn are mostly either descendants of the Kven people and Sami people, or immigrants—and their descendants—from Southern and Central Norway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skibotn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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