Flaksvatn, formerly Flaksvand, is a village in
Birkenes
Birkenes is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Birkeland, where about half the municipal population lives. Other vill ...
municipality in
Agder
Agder is a counties of Norway, county () and districts of Norway, traditional region in the southern part of Norway and is coextensive with the Southern Norway region. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Au ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. Located just north of the village of
Birkeland on the lake
Flakksvann, the village was from 1896 to 1953 the terminus of the
Lillesand–Flaksvand Line
The Lillesand–Flaksvand Line () or LFB was a railway between Flaksvand (now called Flaksvatn) and Lillesand in Agder, Norway. The private line was built with narrow gauge and was not connected to the rail transport in Norway, national railway ...
.
Villages in Agder
Birkenes
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