Leines is a small village in the municipality of

Steigen Steigen ('stejgen) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Leinesfjord. Other villages include Bogen, Leines, Nordfold, N ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, ...

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 ...

. It is located on the southern shore of the mouth of the Leinesfjorden, about west of

Nordfold Nordfold is a village in Steigen Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village of Nordfold lies along the Nordfolda, a northern branch of the main Folda fjord. It lies about east of the municipal centre of Leinesfjorden. It is the l ...

. The villages of

Leinesfjord Leinesfjord or Myklebostad is the administrative centre of the municipality of Steigen in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located about west of the village of Nordfold along the Leinesfjorden, the fjord after which the village is named. ...

and

Sørskot Sørskot is a village in the municipality of Steigen in Nordland county, Norway. It is located about south of the village of Nordskot and about northwest of the administrative centre, Leinesfjorden. Sørskot Chapel Sørskot Chapel ( no, Sø ...

are located a few kilometres across the fjord on the opposite shore. Leiranger Church is located in Leines.

References

Steigen Villages in Nordland Populated places of Arctic Norway {{Nordland-geo-stub