Nybyen is a small settlement located on the southern outskirts of Longyearbyen, on the island of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway.

[5] Most students at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) lived in six renovated mining barracks in Nybyen.

[7] Nybyen is situated in the upper part of the Longyear Valley, about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) uphill from the centre of Longyearbyen, at an altitude of around 100 metres (330 ft).

To the west, just on the other side of the river, is a place called Sverdrupbyen, named after Einar Sverdrup (1895–1942), the managing director of the mining company Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani.

[10] Most buildings in Sverdrupbyen, including those of Mine 1B, were destroyed in a fire drill in the 1980s before they became protected under the cultural heritage preservation law.