Ålesund
Ålesund is the largest city in Møre og Romsdal county, West Norway, with about 40,000 inhabitants, 70,000 in the surrounding area. Ålesund is the gateway to the iconic northwestern fjords and surrounding alpine mountains.
Photo: Sgm, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Color Line Stadion
Stadium
Color Line Stadion is an association football stadium in Ålesund, Norway, and the home of 1. divisjon side Aalesunds FK. Color Line Stadion is situated 2 km east of Ålesund. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
Atlanterhavsparken
Public aquarium
The Atlantic Sea-Park is an aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Atlanterhavsparken is situated 3 km west of Ålesund.
Ålesund Church
Church
Ålesund Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Volsdalen Church
Church
Volsdalen Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Volsdalen Church is situated 2 km east of Ålesund. Photo: GangerRolf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ålesund
- Type: Town
- Description: municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway
- Category: municipality of Norway
- Location: Møre og Romsdal, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- Population: 53,200
- Latitude: 62.4729° or 62° 28' 22.4" north
- Longitude: 6.1493° or 6° 8' 57.4" east
- Elevation: 3 metres (10 feet)
- Neighbors: Molde
- OpenStreetMap ID: node 31264149
- GeoNames ID: 6453341
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Alesund
- Afrikaans: Ålesund
- Albanian: Ålesund
- Arabic: أوليسوند
- Armenian: Օլեսուն
- Asturian: Ålesund
- Basque: Ålesund
- Belarusian: Алесун
- Belarusian: Олесун
- Bishnupriya: অলেসুন্ড
- Bulgarian: Олесун
- Burmese: အော်လ်ဆန်းမြို့
- Catalan: Aalesund
- Catalan: Ålesund
- Cebuano: Ålesund
- Chinese: Ålesund
- Chinese: 奥勒松
- Croatian: Ålesund
- Czech: Ålesund
- Danish: Aalesund
- Danish: Ålesund
- Dutch: Alesund
- Dutch: Ålesund
- English: Alesund
- English: Ålesund, Norway
- Esperanto: Ålesund
- Estonian: Aalesund
- Estonian: Alesund
- Estonian: Ålesund
- Faroese: Ålesund
- Finnish: Aalesund
- Finnish: Ålesund
- French: Aalesund
- French: Alesund
- French: Vigra
- French: Ålesund
- Galician: Aalesund
- Galician: Ålesund
- German: Aalesund
- German: Alesund
- German: Ålesund
- Greek: Ώλεσουντ
- Hebrew: אולסון
- Hebrew: אולסונד
- Hebrew: אולסן
- Hindi: आलेसूंड
- Hungarian: Ålesund
- Icelandic: Álasund
- Icelandic: Ålesund
- Indonesian: Aalesund
- Indonesian: Alesund
- Indonesian: Ålesund
- Italian: Aalesund
- Italian: Alesund
- Italian: Spjelkavik
- Italian: Ålesund
- Japanese: オーレスン
- Japanese: オーレンス
- Javanese: Ålesund
- Kalaallisut: Ålesund
- Korean: 올레순
- Latin: Estrecio Anguilla
- Latin: Ålesund
- Latvian: Olesunnas komūna
- Latvian: Olesunnas pašvaldība
- Latvian: Ålesund kommune
- Limburgan: Ålesund
- Lithuanian: Olesiundas
- Lithuanian: Olesundas
- Low German: Kommun Ålesund
- Luxembourgish: Alesund
- Luxembourgish: Ålesund
- Macedonian: Олесунд
- Malay: Ålesund
- Min Nan Chinese: Ålesund
- Northern Sami: Ålesund
- Norwegian: Ålesund
- Norwegian Bokmål: Aalesund
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ålesund
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ålesund kommune
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ålesund
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ålesund kommune
- Occitan (post 1500): Ålesund
- Ossetian: Алесунд
- Ossetian: Олесунн
- Persian: السوند
- Piemontese: Ålesund
- Polish: Aalesund
- Polish: Alesund
- Polish: Ålesund
- Portuguese: Aalesund
- Portuguese: Alesund
- Portuguese: Ålesund
- Romanian: Alesund
- Romanian: Ålesund
- Russian: Аальзунд
- Russian: Алесунд
- Russian: Олесунн
- Scots: Ålesund
- Serbian: Ålesund
- Serbian: Олесунд
- Silesian: Ålesund
- Slovak: Ålesund
- Slovenian: Ålesund
- Spanish: Aalesund
- Spanish: Alesund
- Spanish: Ålesund
- Swahili: Ålesund
- Swedish: Ålesund
- Swedish: Ålesunds kommun
- Tatar: Олесунн
- Tumbuka: Ålesund
- Turkish: Ålesund
- Ukrainian: Олесунн
- Vietnamese: Ålesund
- Waray (Philippines): Ålesund
- Welsh: Ålesund
- Wu Chinese: 奥勒松
In the Area
Localities
- Ålesund
- Slinningen
- Skarbøvik2 km southwest
- Heissa2½ km southwest
- Valderhaug3 km northwest
- Valderøy3 km north
Landmarks
- ingrids GlasscerkstedTourist attraction
- FiskerimuseetMuseum
- ÅlesundTourist attraction
- JugendstilsenteretMuseum
- Kunstmuseet KubeMuseum
- Ålesund Museum ParkPark
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. - Tim Cahill
Popular Destinations in Møre og Romsdal
Mapcarta The Free Map | Your world is without borders |
Escape to a Random Place
- ZanzibarTanzania
- NikkoJapan
- Burkina FasoWest Africa
- HondurasCentral America
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Based on the page Ålesund. See this page's contributions. Photo: GangerRolf, CC BY-SA 3.0.