Sjøvegan is the

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Salangen Municipality Salangen is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sjøvegan, where most of the people in the municipality live. Other villages ...

Troms Troms (; ; ; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with ...

county,

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. The village is located at the end of the Sagfjorden, a branch of the

Salangen Salangen may refer to: Places *Salangen Municipality, a municipality in Troms county, Norway *Salangen (fjord) or is a fjord in Salangen Municipality and Ibestad Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The fjord flows to the northeast from the ...

fjord. The river Salangselva empties into the fjord at Sjøvegan. The river flows through the lakes Nervatnet and Øvrevatnet just to the east of the village. The village is located about east of

European route E6 European route E6 (, , 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 through almost all of the countr ...

. The nearby town of

Setermoen Setermoen is the administrative centre of Bardu Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is located along the Barduelva river, about east of the village of Sjøvegan and about south of Bardufoss. In 1999, the municipal council of ...

Bardu Municipality Bardu ( and ) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Setermoen, the largest urban area in the municipality. The municipality is the 18th largest by area out of the 357 municip ...

is east of Sjøvegan and the village of Laberget is located about southwest of Sjøvegan. The village has a population (2023) of 770 and a

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of . The home venue of the Salangen IF team is located in Sjøvegan.

Salangen Church Salangen Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Salangen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sjøvegan. It is one of the churches for the Salangen parish which is part of the Senja prosti (deaner ...

is also located in the village.

Name

The name is the plural of "Sjøveg" which means ''vei ned til sjøen'' or "the way down to the sea".

Media gallery

SalangenWinter.JPG, Sjøvegan on the right side Aurora Borealis Salangen2.jpg, Sjøvegan at night Mjosundet.JPG, Fjord leading to Sjøvegan (innermost part of the fjord)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sjovegan Villages in Troms Populated places of Arctic Norway Salangen