Ankenesstranda or Ankenesstrand (sometimes simply called "Ankenes") is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Narvik Municipality ( se, Áhkanjárga) is the third-largest List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Narvik (town), town of Narvik. Some of t ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

county,

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. The village is located just west of the town of Narvik and just east of the village of

Håkvik or is a village in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located along the southern shore of the Ofotfjorden, southwest of the town of Narvik and the village of Ankenesstranda. Håkvik Chapel was built here in 1980. ...

. The village lies at the

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of the large

Ofotfjorden Ofotfjord ( or ) is a fjord in Nordland county, Norway. It is an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, located about north of the Arctic Circle. The long Ofotfjord is Norway's 12th longest fjord and it is also the 18th deepest, with a maximum depth of . ...

and the smaller

Beisfjorden Jacobsen, Alf R., & J. Basil Cowlishaw. 2016. ''Death at Dawn: Captain Warburton-Lee VC and the Battle of Narvik, April 1940''. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. ( or ) is a fjord in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is ...

. The

European route E06 European route E6 ( no, Europavei 6, sv, Europaväg 6, or simply E6) is the main north-south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and thr ...

highway runs through the village before crossing the

Beisfjord Bridge The Beisfjord Bridge ( no, Beisfjordbrua) is a girder bridge in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The concrete bridge crosses the Beisfjorden on the west side of the town of Narvik. The bridge connects Ankenes, a residential are ...

into the town of Narvik. In 2016, there were about 3,000 inhabitants of the village. The village was the

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of the former municipality of

Ankenes Ankenes is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1884 until 1974. It encompassed most of the present-day Narvik Municipality, surrounding of the town of Narvik which was once its own municipality. T ...

which existed from 1884 until 1974.

Ankenes Church Ankenes Church ( no, Ankenes kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ankenesstranda. It is the main church for the Ankenes parish which is part of the Of ...

is an

octagon In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon. A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, whi ...

al church that was built in Ankenesstranda in 1842. Ankenes is also known for ''Millerjordbukta'' (the local shopping area), and the local football team SK Hardhaus. The local Ankenes Skiing Resort (''Ankenes Alpinsenter'') was built in 1972 and it has 8 runs and 2 lifts. In 1973, the Ankenes Alpine Club was also established.

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Narvik Villages in Nordland {{Nordland-geo-stub