Bjørnevatn is a village in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of the town of Kirkenes and about 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) west of the Norway-Russia border. The village has a couple of suburbs including Hesseng to the north and Sandnes to the west. The 1.79-square-kilometre (440-acre) village has a population (2013) of 2,503, which gives the village a population density of 1,398 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,620/sq mi).