Vangsnes
Vangsnes is a village located in Vik Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It's located on a relatively flat and fertile peninsula that juts out on the south side of the Sognefjorden, roughly at the midpoint of the fjord which is Norway's longest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Vangsnes Church.
Vangsnes Church
Church
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Vangsnes Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vik Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vangsnes. It is the church for the Vangsnes parish which is part of the Sogn prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balestrand and Feios.
Balestrand
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Balestrand is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The 429-square-kilometre municipality existed from 1850 until its dissolution in 2020.
Feios
Village
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Feios is a village in Vik Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the southern shore of the Sognefjorden, about 8 kilometres southeast of the village of Vangsnes and about 17 kilometres northwest of the village of Fresvik. Feios is situated 7 km southeast of Vangsnes.
Vangsnes
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Vik Municipality, Norway
- Categories: village with a church and locality
- Location: Vik, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.17451° or 61° 10′ 28″ northLongitude
6.63733° or 6° 38′ 14″ eastElevation
55 metres (180 feet)Open location code
9FH85JFP+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 138039764OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Vangsnes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فانغسنس”
- Cebuano: “Vangsnes”
- Danish: “Vangsnes”
- Dutch: “Vangsnes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فانجسنس”
- French: “Vangsnes”
- Italian: “Vangsnes”
- Malay: “Vangsnes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vangsnes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vangsnes”
- Norwegian: “Vangsnes”
- Persian: “ونگسنس”
- Swedish: “Vangsnes”
- “Vangsnes”
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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 “Vangsnes”. Photo: Matt Sachtler, CC BY-SA 2.0.