Kirkehamn or Kirkehavn (literally: ''Church harbour'') is a

fishing village A fishing village is a village, usually located near a fishing ground, with an economy based on catching fish and harvesting seafood. The continents and islands around the world have coastlines totalling around 356,000 kilometres (221,000 ...

Flekkefjord Flekkefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Lister Region, Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the ...

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 ...

. The village is one of two

harbour A harbor (American English), or harbour (Commonwealth English; see American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, spelling differences), is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be Mooring, moored. The t ...

s on the Norwegian island Hidra. Kirkehamn lies on the west end of the island, while the other harbour,

Rasvåg Rasvåg is a fishing village in Flekkefjord municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is one of two harbour A harbor (American English), or harbour (Commonwealth English; see American and British English spelling differences#-our ...

lies on the south side of the island. The village was the

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of the old municipality of Hidra which existed prior to 1965.

Hidra Church Hidra Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the large Flekkefjord Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kirkehamn on the island of Hidra. It is the church for the Hidra parish which is part of t ...

is located in the village. The village is home to about 120 residents (as of 2015).

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Villages in Agder Flekkefjord {{Agder-geo-stub