Birketveit is the administrative centre of

Iveland Iveland is a municipality in Agder County, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Setesdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Birketveit. Other villages in the municipality include Bakken, Skaiå, and ...

municipality in

Agder Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...

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 about north of the villages of Skaiå and Bakken and about to the west of the village of Vatnestrøm. The

Iveland Church Iveland Church ( no, Iveland kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Iveland Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Birketveit. It is the church for the Iveland parish which is part of the Otredal pr ...

is located on the south end of the village. The small lake ''Birketveitstjønna'' lies on the west side of the village. The municipal government building is located here and it houses a small mineral/mining museum. There is also a municipal sports hall in Birketveit.

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Villages in Agder Iveland Setesdal {{AustAgder-geo-stub