Buvika is a village in the municipality of Skaun

Skaun

Skaun is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other villages include Buvik, Eggkleiva, Melby, Skaun, and Viggja....

 in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 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...

. It is located at the end of the Gaulosen, an arm of the Trondheimsfjord

Trondheimsfjord

The Trondheimsfjord , an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third longest fjord at long. It is located in the west central part of the country, and it stretches from Ørland in west to Steinkjer in north, passing the city of Trondheim on its way...

, about 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) from the mouth of the Gaula River. Buvika lies along the European route E39

European route E39

E 39 is the designation of a 1330 km long north-south road in Norway and Denmark, running from Klett just south of Trondheim to Aalborg, via Orkanger, Vinjeøra, Halsa ... Straumsnes, Krifast, Batnfjordsøra, Molde ... Vestnes, Skodje, Ålesund ... Volda ... Nordfjordeid ... Sandane, Førde,...

, about halfway between the villages of Børsa

Børsa

Børsa is a village and a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The former municipality of Børsa encompassed most of the northern part of the present-day municipality of Skaun, and historically also included the Geitastrand area in Orkdal....

 and Leinstrand

Leinstrand

Leinstrand is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The area of Leinstrand encompasses the south central part of the city of Trondheim. The local Leinstrand Church was built in 1673.-History:...

. The village of Buvika was the municipal center of the former municipality of Buvik

Buvik

Buvik is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre was located in the village of Buvika. Buvik encompasses the extreme northeastern part of the present-day municipality of Skaun...

, and this is also where Buvik Church

Buvik Church

Buvik Church is a parish church in the municipality of Skaun in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Buvika. The octogonal wooden building was designed by Svend Halvorsen Aspaas and Lars Forseth, and it was completed in 1819....

 is located.

The western part of the Buvika village is called Ilhaugen. Together, the 1.38 square kilometres (341 acre) urban area has a population (2009) of 1,856. The population density

Population density

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is 1345 PD/km2.