Finneid is a small town with a population of 210 (2016 census) that lies southeast of Fauske in Nordland

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

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 Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

.''Store norske leksikon'': Finneid.
/ref> Finneid was the port for shipping out the ore that came from the mine in

Sulitjelma , , or is a village in the municipality of Fauske in Nordland county, Norway. Sulitjelma is situated in a lush inland valley at an elevation of above sea level. It is located on the shore of Langvatnet lake, about southeast of the town of Fa ...

. The town formerly had hotels, boarding houses, and shops, but as mining in Sulitjelma declined most of the businesses established in Finneid closed down. Finneid is connected to Fauske by European route E6 and to Sulitjelma by Norwegian County Road 830.''Vegliste 2016: Fylkes- og kommunale veger. Nordland''. 2016. Bodø: Statens vegvesen Region nord, p. 2.

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{{authority control Populated places in Nordland Fauske