or is the
administrative centre
An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.
In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgi ...
of
Gratangen Municipality
or is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Central HÃ¥logaland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ã…rstein.
The municipality is the 261st largest by area out of the 35 ...
in
Troms
Troms (; ; ; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located on the north side of the
Gratangsfjorden at the narrowest point along the fjord. The
Ã…rstein Bridge crosses the fjord here. The village is located about northwest of the village of
Fjordbotn (at the head of the fjord) and about from the village of
Hilleshamn (where the Gratangsfjorden empties into the
Astafjorden
or is a fjord (more accurately, a strait) in Troms county, Norway. It flows through the municipalities of Salangen, Gratangen, Ibestad, and Tjeldsund. The long fjord flows from the Salangen fjord in the east to the VÃ¥gsfjorden in the we ...
).
The Ã…rstein area has 211 inhabitants (as of 2010), making it the largest urbanized area in the municipality.
is located in the village. It was designed in a
modernist
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...
style by Oskar Nordeval and opened in 1971.
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References
Gratangen
Villages in Troms
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