Å is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in
Andøy Municipality
Andøy is the northernmost List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Vesterålen archipelago. The main island in the municipality is Andøya. The administrative centre of the ...
in
Nordland
Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. The village is located on the east coast of the island of
Andøya along the
Andfjorden. The village of
Dverberg
or is a small village in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the east coast of the island of Andøya, along the Andfjorden, about south of the large village of Andenes. Dverberg Church is a wooden, octagonal c ...
lies about to the north and the village of
Åse lies about to the south. Its sign is often replaced due to people stealing it for novelty purposes.
Name
The village (originally a farm) was first mentioned in 1567 ("Aa"). The name is from the
Old Norse
Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...
word ', which means "(small) river".
See also
*
List of short place names
This is a list of short place names, natively in Latin characters or romanized, with one or two letters.
One-letter place names
* A, a former village in Kami-Amakusa city, Kumamoto, Japan
*Á, a farm in Dalabyggð municipality, Dalasýsla, Ic ...
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Place names considered unusual
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References
Andøy
Villages in Nordland
Populated places of Arctic Norway
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