Bonakas () is a village in

Deatnu-Tana Municipality or is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tana bru. Among the other villages in the municipality are Austertana, Bonakas, Polmak, Rustefjelbma, and Skiippagurra. ...

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 lies on the western bank of the Tana River, just north of the village of

Rustefjelbma Rustefjelbma ( sme, Ruostefielbmá) is a village in Deatnu-Tana Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located along the Tana River, about south of the mouth of the river at the Tanafjorden. The village of Bonakas ...

. Historically, Bonakas has been inhabited by the Sami people and

Kven people Kvens (; fi, kveeni; no, kvenar, kvener; sv, kväner; se, kveanat) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic minority in Norway. They are descended from Finnish peasants and fishermen who emigrated from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Norther ...

, more recently newcomers from the more southern parts of Norway and

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

have moved in. However, Tana municipality, unlike

Porsanger Porsanger ( se, Porsáŋgu; fkv, Porsanki) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lakselv. Other villages in the municipality include Børselv, Brenna, Indre Bil ...

, has not declared Kven an official language.

References

Villages in Finnmark Tana, Norway Populated places of Arctic Norway {{Finnmark-geo-stub