Vega
Vegaøyan or the Vega Archipelago is a group of islands in the Norwegian Sea in Nordland county, Norway. The archipelago is mostly located in Vega Municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago and World Heritage Site in Vega, Norway
- Also known as: “Vega Archipelago”, “Vega Islands”, and “Vegaøyan”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gladstad and Holand.
Gladstad
Village
Photo: TorbjørnS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gladstad is the administrative centre of Vega Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the central part of the island of Vega, about 3.5 kilometres southeast of the village of Holand. Vega Church is located in Gladstad. Gladstad is situated 5 km east of Vega.
Holand
Village
Photo: Dana Morris, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holand is a village in Vega Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the north end of the island of Vega about 3.5 kilometres north of the village of Gladstad. Holand is situated 5 km northeast of Vega.
Vega
- Categories: archipelago and landform
- Location: Vega, Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Vega” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վեգաեյն”
- Azerbaijani: “Veqa arxipelaqı”
- Basque: “Vega uhartedia”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag de Vega”
- Catalan: “Vegaøyan”
- Cebuano: “Vega”
- Chinese: “維加群島”
- Croatian: “Arhipelag Vega”
- Croatian: “Vega”
- Czech: “Souostroví Vega”
- Czech: “Vegaøyan”
- Danish: “Vegaøerne”
- Dutch: “Vega-archipel”
- Estonian: “Vega saared”
- Estonian: “Vega saarestik”
- Finnish: “Vega”
- French: “archipel de Vega”
- French: “Archipel de Vega”
- French: “Vegaøyan - Archipel de Vega”
- French: “Vegaøyan”
- Galician: “Vegaøyan”
- Georgian: “ვეგაეინი”
- German: “Vega-Archipel”
- German: “Vega”
- Hebrew: “ארכיפלג וגה”
- Hindi: “वेगा द्वीप”
- Hindi: “वेगावयेन”
- Hungarian: “Vega-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Vegaøyan”
- Italian: “arcipelago di Vega”
- Italian: “Arcipelago di Vega”
- Lithuanian: “Vegaejenas”
- Maltese: “Arċipelagu ta‘ Vega”
- Maltese: “Arċipelagu ta’ Vega”
- Maltese: “Vegaøyan”
- Mingrelian: “ვეგაიენი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vegaøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vega”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vegaøyan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vegaøyane”
- Norwegian: “Vega kommune”
- Norwegian: “Vega”
- Norwegian: “Vegaøyene”
- Persian: “وگویان”
- Polish: “Vega”
- Polish: “Vegaøyan”
- Portuguese: “Vega”
- Portuguese: “Vegaøyan”
- Russian: “Вегаэйн”
- Serbian: “Вегаејан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Arhipelag Vega”
- Slovak: “Súostrovie Vega”
- Slovenian: “Otočje Vega”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de Vega”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Vega”
- Spanish: “Vegaoyan”
- Spanish: “Vegaøyan”
- Swedish: “Vega kommun”
- Swedish: “Vegaöarna”
- Turkish: “Vegaøyan”
- Ukrainian: “Вегаейн”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Vega”
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