Polmak ( and ) is a village in

Tana Municipality or is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tana bru. Among the other villages in the municipality are Austertana, Bonakas, Polmak, Rustefjelbma, and Skiippagur ...

Troms og Finnmark Troms og Finnmark (; sme, Romsa ja Finnmárku ; fkv, Tromssa ja Finmarkku; fi, Tromssa ja Finnmark, lit. Troms and Finnmark in English), is a county in northern Norway that was established on 1 January 2020 as the result of a regional reform ...

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. The village is located on the south shore of the river Tana, just east of the border with

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(and the northernmost point of Finland). The village is the site of the Polmak Church. The village was the

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of the old municipality of Polmak which existed from 1903 until its dissolution in 1964.

Name

The name is a Norwegian version of the

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form of the name, ''Buolbmát''. The meaning is unknown.

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Weather information for Polmak
{{authority control Villages in Finnmark Populated places of Arctic Norway Tana, Norway