Birtavarre is a village in the municipality of Gáivuotna – Kåfjord in Troms

Troms

or Romsa is a county in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest. To the south is Norrbotten Län in Sweden and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The population (2009) of the village and surrounding area is 283.

The village is located along the Kåfjordelva river at the end of the fjord (Kåfjord) in the Kåfjorddalen valley in an area called Kåfjordbotn . Birtavarre is located along European route E6

European route E6

European route E 6 is the designation for the main north-south road in Norway, and the west coast of Sweden, running from the southern tip of Sweden, at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to Finnmark. The route ends close to the Norwegian border with Russia...

 about 18.3 km (11.4 mi) southeast of the municipal centre of Olderdalen

Olderdalen

Olderdalen is the administrative centre of the municipality of Gáivuotna - Kåfjord in Troms county, Norway. Its population is 312.Olderdalen is located in the Olderdalen valley along the Kåfjorden with a view of the Lyngen Alps, and has a ferry connection to Lyngseidet, the administrative centre...

 (on the north side of the fjord) and about 12.5 km (7.8 mi) southeast of Samuelsberg and Manndalen (on the south side of the fjord). Birtavarre church is also located in the village.