or is a small village in

Balsfjord Municipality Balsfjord ( - ; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Storsteinnes. Other notable villages include Mestervik, Mortenhals ...

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 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 lies about southeast of the city of Tromsø. The village has a population (2023) of 483 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...

of . Two major highways,

European route E6 European route E6 (, , or simply E6) is the main north–south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the countr ...

and

European route E8 The European route E8 is a European route that runs between Tromsø, Norway and Turku, Finland. The length of the route is . * E8: Tromsø – Nordkjosbotn – Skibotn – Kilpisjärvi – Kaaresuvanto – Muonio – Tornio – Keminmaa ...

, meet in this village, making it a major crossroads in

Northern Norway Northern Norway (, , ; ) is a geographical region of Norway, consisting of the three northernmost counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainland. Some of the largest towns in Northern Norway (from south to no ...

, with an estimated annual passage of 3 million people.

Nordkjosbotn Church Nordkjosbotn Church () is a chapel of the Church of Norway The Church of Norway (, , , ) is an Lutheranism, evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. Christianity became th ...

is located in this village.

Macks Ølbryggeri Mack Bryggeri (; Norwegian official name: ''Macks Ølbryggeri AS'') is a brewery in Balsfjord Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It claims to be the world's northernmost brewery. It was founded during 1877 in Tromsø by Ludwig Markus Mack ...

, a brewery, has been operating in Nordkjosbotn since 2012.

Location

Nordkjosbotn is located at the end of the Nordkjosen branch of the

Balsfjorden or is a fjord in Troms county, Norway. The long fjord runs through Balsfjord Municipality and Tromsø Municipality. It branches off the Tromsøysundet strait just south of the city of Tromsø and it flows in a north–south direction, rangin ...

where the river ''Nordkjoselva'' meets the

fjord In physical geography, a fjord (also spelled fiord in New Zealand English; ) is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Antarctica, the Arctic, and surrounding landmasses of the n ...

. The village is about wide filling the narrow valley between several mountains, some of which are more than above sea level, most notably ''Store Russetind'' to the southwest. The village has an area of about and is located on a partially

marsh In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p More in genera ...

alluvial plain An alluvial plain is a plain (an essentially flat landform) created by the deposition of sediment over a long period by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms. A ''floodplain'' is part of the process, bei ...

formed by the Nordkjoselva river. The village of

Storsteinnes or is the administrative center of Balsfjord Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village has a population (2023) of 1,107 and a population density of . This makes it the largest urban area in the municipality. Storsteinnes Chapel is loc ...

lies about west of Nordkjosbotn and the village of

Hatteng , , or is the administrative centre of Storfjord Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is located along the European route E06 highway at the southern end of the Storfjorden, a branch of the large Lyngenfjorden. Storfjord Church is ...

(in

Storfjord Municipality , (Northern Sami; ), or is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hatteng. Other villages in Storfjord include Elvevoll, Oteren, and Skibotn. The municipality is the 54th l ...

) lies about to the east.

Gallery

A view towards Nordkjosbotn at Balsfjorden.JPG, A morning view towards Nordkjosbotn from a road stop on the E6. NH BD Nordkjosbotn kirke1.jpg,

Navnesteinen ved Nordkjosbotn.jpg, The Name Stone near Nordkjosbotn.

References

{{Authority control Villages in Troms Populated places of Arctic Norway Balsfjord