| Other Name: | Northern Sami: Vuorjám | ||||||||
| Settlement Type: | Village | ||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Finnmark#Norway | ||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | left | ||||||||
| Pushpin Label: | Grense Jakobselv | ||||||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Finnmark | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name: | Norway | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Northern Norway | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Finnmark | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type3: | District | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Øst-Finnmark | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type4: | Municipality | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name4: | Sør-Varanger Municipality | ||||||||
| Utc Offset1: | +01:00 | ||||||||
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 | ||||||||
| Postal Code Type: | Post Code | ||||||||
| Postal Code: | 9900 Kirkenes | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 69.775°N 30.8311°W | ||||||||
| Elevation M: | 5 | ||||||||
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] | ||||||||
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,, or [2] (also: and) is a small village in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located on the shore of the Barents Sea at the mouth of the Jakobselva river. It lies about by road east of the town of Kirkenes. The area was settled by Norwegians in 1851.[3]
The Jakobselva river forms the border with Russia, on the east side of Grense Jakobselv. Here, there is a small post of the Garrison of Sør-Varanger of the Norwegian Army, from where soldiers patrol the border. In this area, however, there is no public border crossing.
In the village, there is a stone chapel built in 1869 called King Oscar II Chapel. The church was built to reinforce Norway's territorial claim to the area, and was named after King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway at a visit he made in 1873.
Grense Jakobselv is the point in mainland Norway farthest by national road from Norway's capital Oslo. It is by a route entirely within Norway.[4] If international routes are included, the distance is approximately (shorter), travelling through the neighboring countries of Sweden and Finland. In this scenario, Gamvik would be the farthest place from Oslo .