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The Three-Country Cairn (Finnish: Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki, Northern Sami: Golmma riikka urna, Norwegian: Treriksrøysa, Swedish: Treriksröset) is the tripoint at which the international borders of Sweden, Norway and Finland meet, and the name of the monument that marks the point. It is the northernmost international tripoint in the world.
Treriksrøysa (lit. ' Three-Country Cairn ') is a cairn which marks the tripoint where the borders between Norway, Finland, and Russia meet. The site is on a hill called Muotkavaara, [1] in the Pasvikdalen valley, west of the Pasvikelva river and 15 km (9 mi) southwest of Nyrud just west of Krokfjellet in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
Images of tripoints in honor of Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn, an iconic photograph taken on 27 April 1945, which was the last day of the Second World War in Finland. Finnish soldiers raise the war flag at the Three-Country Cairn between Norway, Sweden and Finland (also called Treriksröset )
The border between Norway and Finland is 736 kilometers (457 mi) long. [1] It is a land and river border between two tripoints. The western tripoint is marked by Treriksröset, a concrete cairn where both countries border Sweden. The eastern tripoint is marked by Treriksrøysa, a stone cairn where both countries border Russia. [2]
Treriksrøysa, a stone a cairn on the tripoint of Finland, Norway and Russia. Muotkavaara ( Finnish ) , Krokfjell ( Norwegian ) ;, [ 1 ] Муоткавара [ 2 ] or Муоткаваара ( Russian ) , [ 3 ] Muotkevárri ( Northern Sami ) , or Myetkivääri ( Inari Sami ) ) is a hill in Lapland at the boundary between Finland, Norway, and Russia.
The border between Norway and Finland is 736 kilometers (457 mi) long. It is a land and river border between two tripoints. The western tripoint is marked by Treriksröset, a stone cairn where both countries border Sweden. The eastern tripoint is marked by Treriksrøysa, a stone cairn where both countries border Russia.
This is a list of towns and cities in Norway. The Norwegian language word by means a town or city –there is no distinction between the two words as there is in English. Historically, the designation of town/city was granted by the king, but since 1996 that authority was given to the local municipal councils for each municipality in Norway.
The border remains Norway's youngest unchanged border and Russia's oldest. [3] Norwegians guarding the Finland–Norway border at Skafferhullet in 1940 after the outbreak of the Winter War. The border was reviewed in 1846; a cairn was constructed at Krokfjellet, and the land border from the sea to Golmmešoaivi was cleared. The marker at the ...