Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Finnmark#Norway |
Pushpin Label: | Polmak |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Northern Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Troms |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Øst-Finnmark |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Tana Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 9845 Tana |
Coordinates: | 70.0708°N 28.0075°W |
Elevation M: | 19 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
,, or [2] is a village in Tana Municipality in Finnmark county in Norway. The village is located on the south shore of the river Tana, just east of the border with Finland (and the northernmost point of Finland). The village is the site of the Polmak Church.[3]
The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Polmak which existed from 1903 until its dissolution in 1964.
The name is a Norwegian version of the Northern Sami form of the name, Buolbmát. The meaning is unknown.