Sør-Varanger is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Other settlements in the municipality include the villages of Bjørnevatn, Bugøynes, Elvenes, Grense Jakobselv, Hesseng, Jakobsnes, Neiden, and Sandnes. Located west of the Norway–Russia border, Sør-Varanger is the only Norwegian municipality that shares a land border with Russia, with the only legal border crossing at Storskog.
Sør-Varanger
The King Oscar II Chapel on the Russian border
The border with Russia follows the Grense Jakobselv in the northeast near the Barents Sea, while Pasvikelva forms the border further south along the Pasvik Valley.
Neiden, Sør-Varanger. The Skoltesami traditionally catch salmon with a technique using small nets.
Finnmark is a county in the northern part of Norway.
Silfar canyon in Porsanger, 2022 August
Mountain landscape near Kvalsund in Hammerfest Municipality
Altafjorden, Alta (2003)
Kjøllefjord on the northeastern coast