Sjøvegan is a village and the administrative centre of the municipality of Salangen

Salangen

Salangen is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sjøvegan, where most of the people in the municipality live. The municipality is situated along the Sagfjord, and also includes some inland valleys...

 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 is 729. The home venue of the Salangen IF

Salangen IF

Salangen Idrettsforening is a Norwegian alliance sports club from Sjøvegan, Troms. It has sections for association football, Nordic skiing and gymnastics.The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football...

 team is located in Sjøvegan.

The village is located at the end of the Sagfjorden, a branch of the Salangen fjord

Fjord

Geologically, a fjord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity.-Formation:A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by abrasion of the surrounding bedrock. Glacial melting is accompanied by rebound of Earth's crust as the ice...

. The river Salangselva empties into the fjord at Sjøvegan. The river flows through the lakes Nervatnet and Øvrevatnet just to the east of the village. The village is located about 17 km (10.6 mi) east of 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...

. The nearby town of Setermoen

Setermoen

Setermoen is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bardu in Troms county, Norway. Its population is 2,457. The local administration declared city status for Setermoen in 1999, but this was rejected by the government of Norway since the municipality has less than 5,000...

 in Bardu

Bardu

Bardu is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Setermoen, the largest urban area in the municipality.Norway's largest military garrison is located at Setermoen...

 is 25 km (15.5 mi) east of Sjøvegan and the village of Laberget

Laberg, Salangen

Laberg or Laberget is a village in the municipality of Salangen in Troms county, Norway. It is about southwest of the municipal centre of Sjøvegan. Laberget is located at the end of the Sagfjorden where the Sagelva river meets the fjord. The population of the village is 222....

is located about 3.5 km (2.2 mi) southwest of Sjøvegan.

The name is the plural of "Sjøveg" which means vei ned til sjøen or "the way down to the sea".