Kirkenes is a town in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway, lying on a peninsula along the Bøkfjorden arm of the Varangerfjorden just a few kilometers from the Norway-Russia border. The town covers about 2.29 square kilometers and had a population of 3,404 in 2023, rising to almost 8,000 when the neighboring villages of Hesseng, Skytterhusfjellet, Sandnes and Bjørnevatn are included.
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Founding Year Climate Zone Sources
1. Kirkenes (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1826-00-00T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 3,424 (2025)
View the Source2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 69.75, 30.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 69.75, 30.25
69.75 30.25 Dfc
3. GeoNames: Kirkenes - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 779303, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 779303, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
69.72706 30.04578 P PPLA2 NO 05 5605 3529 10 Europe/Oslo
Kirkenes (Wikipedia)
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