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Kirkenes ( Norwegian; pronounced [ˈçɪ̂rkəneːs] ⓘ) [ 4 ], Girkonjárga ( Northern Sami; pronounced [ˈkir̥ː.ko.ˌɲaːrːka] [ 4 ], or Kirkkoniemi ( Kven)[ 4 ] is a town [ 1 ] in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway. The town lies on a peninsula along the Bøkfjorden, an arm of the large ...
Altafjorden, Alta (2003) Finnmark is the northernmost and easternmost county in Norway ( Svalbard is not considered a county). By area, Finnmark is Norway's second-largest county, even larger than the neighboring country of Denmark. With a population of about 75,000, it is also the least populated of all Norwegian counties.
The continental coastline of Norway is 25,148 km (15,626 mi); with islands included, it is 83,281 km (51,748 mi) [ 4 ] Norway and its territorial waters. Norway's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) totals 2,385,178 km 2 (920,922 sq mi). It is one of the largest in Europe and the 17th-largest in the world.
Köppen climate zones of Norway 1991-2020; 0 °C (32 °F) for coldest month dividing C and D climates. The climate of Norway is more temperate than could be expected for such high latitudes. This is mainly due to the North Atlantic Current with its extension, the Norwegian Current, raising the air temperature; [1] the prevailing southwesterlies ...
The coldest temperature recorded is −51.4 °C (−60.5 °F) in Karasjok on 1.January 1886, and the warmest recorded is 35 °C (95 °F) at Mosjøen Airport on 27 July 2019. [27] Many locations in North Norway have recorded what Norwegians know as "tropical nights" when the overnight low does not fall below 20 °C (68 °F).
Liberation of Finnmark. The Liberation of Finnmark was an Allied military operation lasting from 23 October 1944 until 26 April 1945, in which Soviet and Norwegian forces wrested away control of Finnmark, the northernmost county of Norway, from Germany. It began with a Soviet offensive that liberated Kirkenes.
Troms og Finnmark has short and often cool summers, but sometimes warm continental air from southeast Europe or Russia can give surprisingly warm temperatures. The all-time high was 33.5 °C (92.3 °F) recorded in Bardufoss July 2018, but a new record was set in Banak in Porsanger Municipality with 34.3 °C (93.7 °F) on 5 July 2021.
The climate of the Nordic countries is that of a region in Northern Europe that consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland. Stockholm, Sweden has on average the warmest summer of the Nordic capitals, with an average maximum temperature of 23 ...