Alta: facts

At a glance

• Country: Norway
• Region: Finnmark
• Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
• Population: approximately 15,094
• Coordinates: 69.9689° N, 23.2717° E
• Time zone: Europe/Oslo (UTC+01:00 standard, UTC+02:00 daylight saving time)
• Currency: Krone (NOK)
• Distance to the capital, Oslo: 1,259 km (782 mi), straight line

Getting there

• Alta Airport (ALF): 3.9 km (2.4 mi), straight line
• Lakselv Airport, Banak (LKL): 66 km (41 mi), straight line
• Hasvik Airport (HAA): 72 km (44 mi), straight line

Nearby

• Energjerdet: 2.6 km (1.6 mi)
• Smaland: 5.8 km (3.6 mi)
• Turelv: 8.3 km (5.1 mi)
• Vasskogen: 12 km (7 mi)
• Talvik: 15 km (9 mi)
• Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Murmansk, 399 km (248 mi)