Longyearbyen information

Longyearbyen is the administrative centre of Svalbard and is located on Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. Longyearbyen has approximately 1,800 inhabitants, most of them Norwegians and some Russians. It is the world's northernmost town with over 1000 people. The largest populated settlement more northerly than Longyearbyen is Ny-Ålesund with 30 inhabitants. As the world's northernmost town with 1000 people or more, it has many of the world's northernmost things. See the article on the world's most northern. (...) more....

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