or is a strait located in

Tromsø Municipality Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the 21s ...

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 t ...

. The long strait separates the island of

Tromsøya or is an island in Tromsø Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It lies in the Tromsøysundet strait between the mainland and the larger island of Kvaløya. The city of Tromsø is located on the island, which has 39,882 resident ...

(the location of the city of Tromsø) from the mainland east of the island. The strait is crossed by the

Tromsøysund Tunnel The Tromsøysund Tunnel ( no, Tromsøysundtunnelen) is an undersea highway tunnel in Tromsø Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The tunnel runs under the Tromsøysundet strait, connecting the island of Tromsøya (and the city of ...

( E8 highway) and by the

Tromsø Bridge The Tromsø Bridge ( no, Tromsøbrua) is a cantilever road bridge in the city of Tromsø which is located in Tromsø Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It crosses the Tromsøysundet strait between Tromsdalen on the mainland and t ...

. The strait ranges from about wide. The strait connects to the

Balsfjorden or is a fjord in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The long fjord runs through the municipalities of Balsfjord and Tromsø. It branches off the Tromsøysundet strait just south of the city of Tromsø and it flows in a north–south directio ...

and Straumsfjorden to the south and into the Kvalsundet and Grøtsundet straits to the north.

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Tromsø Landforms of Troms og Finnmark Straits of Norway {{TromsFinnmark-geo-stub