Mollösund
Mollösund is an old fishing village and a locality situated in Orust Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 236 inhabitants in 2010. It is located on the southwest tip of Orust Municipality in the outer archipelago of Sweden’s west coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gärdhemmar’n, CC BY 2.5.
Photo: Benreis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 243 residents
- Description: urban area in Orust Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Molloesund”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mollösunds kyrka and Mollösund lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nösund and Hälleviksstrand.
Nösund
Village
Photo: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nösund is a village, which is situated 4 km northeast of Mollösund.
Hälleviksstrand
Village
Photo: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hälleviksstrand is a locality situated in Orust Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 214 inhabitants in 2010. Hälleviksstrand is often locally called Strana and is a fishing town. 2015 Hälleviksstrand had a population of less than 200 inhabitants. Hälleviksstrand is situated 6 km north of Mollösund.
Käringön
Hamlet
Photo: Greverod, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Käringön is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km northwest of Mollösund.
Mollösund
- Categories: urban area in Sweden, minor locality in Sweden, and locality
- Location: Orust, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
58.07331° or 58° 4′ 24″ northLongitude
11.4755° or 11° 28′ 32″ eastPopulation
243Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE MLOOpen location code
9FCH3FFG+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 245778489OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mollösund” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mollösund”
- Chinese: “Mollösund”
- Danish: “Mollösund”
- Dutch: “Mollösund”
- French: “Mollösund”
- German: “Mollösund”
- Irish: “Mollösund”
- Italian: “Mollösund”
- Ladin: “Mollösund”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mollösund”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mollösund”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mollösund”
- Norwegian: “Mollösund”
- Norwegian: “Molløsund”
- Polish: “Mollösund”
- Swedish: “Mollösund”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mollösunds gamla kyrkogård and Sigurd Olsson Speceri & Diversehandel Museum.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mollösund”. Photo: Gärdhemmar’n, CC BY 2.5.