Láhpoluoppal is a village in
Kautokeino Municipality
Kautokeino ( no, Kautokeino; se, Guovdageaidnu ; fkv, Koutokeino; fi, Koutokeino) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other villages ...
in
Troms og Finnmark
Troms og Finnmark (; sme, Romsa ja Finnmárku ; fkv, Tromssa ja Finmarkku; fi, Tromssa ja Finnmark, lit. Troms and Finnmark in English), is a county in northern Norway that was established on 1 January 2020 as the result of a regional reform. ...
county,
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 ...
. The village is located at the southern end of the large lake
Láhpojávri, along the
Norwegian National Road 92. The small village lies on the vast
Finnmarksvidda
Finnmarksvidda ( sme, Finnmárkkoduottar; en, Finnmark plateau/highland) is Norway's largest plateau, with an area greater than . The plateau lies about above sea level. Approximately 36% of Finnmark lies on the Finnmarksvidda.
Geography
Fr ...
plateau, about half-way between the villages of
Masi and
Kautokeino
Kautokeino ( no, Kautokeino; se, Guovdageaidnu ; fkv, Koutokeino; fi, Koutokeino) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other village ...
. The
Láhpoluoppal Chapel
Láhpoluoppal Chapel ( no, Láhpoluoppal kapell) is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Kautokeino Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Láhpoluoppal. It is an annex chapel for the Kautokeino parish w ...
is located in the village.
References
Villages in Finnmark
Kautokeino
Populated places of Arctic Norway
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