Jakobsnes
, , , or is a village in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Its population in 2005 was 271. The village lies on the coast of the Bøkfjorden, across the fjord from the town of Kirkenes, about north of the village of Elvenes, Finnmark, Elvenes. References

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Sør-Varanger Municipality
Sør-Varanger (; ; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Other settlements in the municipality include the villages of Bjørnevatn, Bugøynes, Elvenes, Finnmark, Elvenes, Grense Jakobselv, Hesseng, Jakobsnes, Neiden, Norway, Neiden, and Sandnes, Finnmark, Sandnes. Located west of the Norway–Russia border, Sør-Varanger is the only Norwegian municipality that shares a land border with Russia, with the only legal border crossing at Storskog. The municipality is the 6th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Sør-Varanger is the 112th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 10,063. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 0.3% over the previous 10-year period. There is a Dark-sky preserve, Dark-sky park in Pasvik. Name The municipality (originally the prestegjeld, parish) is ...
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