Narvik: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Narvik is a town in the county of Nordland, Norway. It has 18,463 inhabitants as of 2003. The municipality of Narvik covers 2041 km², including large areas outside the town.

Narvik is one of the most northerly towns in the world, with a railroad connecting to Kiruna, Sweden, but not to Bodø, the northern end of the rest of the railroad network of Norway.

It was the scene of the earliest Allied success against German forces in World War II. The town was captured by the Germans early in their invasion of Norway, but it was sufficiently far from their bases that a joint British, French and Polish Expeditionary Task Force were able to recapture it. However, the German attack on France, and advances in Norway from the south meant that Narvik had to be abandoned in early June 1940.