Forsøl is a
fishing village
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in
Hammerfest Municipality
Hammerfest (; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality being the Hammerfest (town), town of Hammerfest which is considered the List of no ...
in
Finnmark
Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...
county,
Norway
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. It is located on the northeastern coast of the island of
Kvaløya, about northeast of the
town of Hammerfest. The
Kvalfjorden
or is a fjord in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The long fjord is located on the northeast side of the island of Kvaløya.
Details
Although Kvalfjorden is in the Arctic, the warming effects of the Gulf Stream warm the ...
is a small fjord located just south of the village.
The village had a population (2020) of 202 and a
population density
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of . Since 2020, the population and area data for this village area has not been separately tracked by
Statistics Norway
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.
See also
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List of villages in Finnmark
This is a list of villages in Finnmark, a county in Norway. For other counties see the lists of villages in Norway. The list does not include List of towns and cities in Norway, towns and cities located in Finnmark. The villages that are the admi ...
References
Hammerfest
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway
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