Ersfjordbotn is a village in

Tromsø Municipality Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Tromsø (city), city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies ...

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county,

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. The village is located on an

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between the

Ersfjorden Ersfjorden is a fjord in the Tromsø municipality of Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandina ...

and the Kaldfjorden on the island of Kvaløya. It is about west of the city of Tromsø. The villages of Kjosen and

Kvaløysletta Kvaløysletta is an urban neighborhood within the city of Tromsø which is part of Tromsø Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The neighborhood is located on the eastern shore of the island of Kvaløya, about northwest of the cit ...

are located just to the east of Ersfjordbotn. Ersfjordbotn is slowly moving from a traditional rural settlement to a suburb of Tromsø, and most people work in Tromsø, half an hour's drive away. The village has a population (2017) of 499 which gives the village a

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of .

Media gallery

File:Ersfjord December 2012.JPG, View of

in the winter, up behind the village of Ersfjordbotn (Dec 2012) File:Ersfjord_in_march_2019_21.jpg Ersfjord_in_march_2019_11.jpg Ersfjord_in_march_2019_01.jpg

References

Tromsø Villages in Troms {{troms-geo-stub