Vardø
Vardø, Várggát, or Vuorea is a town and the administrative centre of Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The town is located on the island of Vardøya in the Barents Sea, just off the coast of the large Varanger Peninsula.
- Locality with about 1,780 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code VAW
- Description: town in Vardø Municipality, Norway
- Also known as“Várggát”“Vuorea”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vardø Church and Vardøhus Fortress.
Vardø
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Latitude
70.37048° or 70° 22′ 14″ north
Longitude
31.11066° or 31° 6′ 38″ east
UN/LOCODE
NO VAO
Open location code
CG2H94C6+57
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Vardø” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Vardø”
- Azerbaijani: “Vardö”
- Bulgarian: “Вардьо”
- Bulgarian: “Вуореа”
- Cebuano: “Vuorea”
- Chinese: “瓦尔德镇”
- Danish: “Vardø”
- Dutch: “Vardø”
- Estonian: “Vardø”
- Finnish: “Vardø”
- Finnish: “Várggát”
- Finnish: “Vuorea”
- Finnish: “Vuoreija”
- French: “Vardø”
- German: “Vardø”
- Hungarian: “Vardø”
- Italian: “Vardø”
- Kven Finnish: “Vuorea”
- Lithuanian: “Vardė”
- Northern Sami: “Várggát”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vardø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tettstaden Vardø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vardø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vardøy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vargøy”
- Norwegian: “Vardø”
- Persian: “وردو (شهرک)”
- Persian: “وردو”
- Polish: “Vardø”
- Portuguese: “Vardo”
- Romanian: “Vardø”
- Russian: “Варгаев”
- Russian: “Варде”
- Skolt Sami: “Väärǥ”
- Swedish: “Vardø”
- Ukrainian: “Варде”
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