Salangsdalen is a

river valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...

Bardu Municipality Bardu ( sme, Bearddu suohkan, fkv, Perttulan komuuni) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms og Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Setermoen, the la ...

Troms og Finnmark Troms og Finnmark (; sme, Romsa ja Finnmárku ; fkv, Tromssa ja Finmarkku; fi, Tromssa ja Finnmark, lit. Troms and Finnmark in English language, English), is a Counties of Norway, county in Northern Norway, northern Norway that was established ...

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 t ...

. The river

Salangselva Salangselva is a river in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The long river runs through the municipalities of Salangen and Bardu. The river originates from the lake Isvatnet, flows through the Salangsdalen Salangsdalen is a river valley in Bard ...

flows north through the valley. The valley ends in the middle of Bardu, near the town of

Setermoen Setermoen is the administrative centre of Bardu Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located along the Barduelva river, about east of the village of Sjøvegan and about south of Bardufoss. The local council proclaim ...

. The

European route E6 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 t ...

highway runs north and south through the valley. The Polar Park is located in Salangsdalen—it is known as the northernmost

zoo A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for Conservation biology, conservation purposes. The term ''zoological g ...

in the world. The

Salangsdalen Chapel Salangsdalen Chapel ( no, Salangsdalen kapell) is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Bardu Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the southern part of Bardu in the Salangsdalen valley, just east of the European route E ...

is located in the southern part of the valley.

Rohkunborri National Park Rohkunborri National Park ( no, Rohkunborri nasjonalpark, sme, Rohkunborri álbmotmeahcci) is a national park in Troms county, Norway, that was established in 2011. The park consists of a protected area, and is located in Bardu Municipality alo ...

lies just east of the valley.

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Polar Park
Bardu Valleys of Troms og Finnmark {{TromsFinnmark-geo-stub