Tau
Tau is a village in Strand municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located on the shore of the Horgefjorden, a branch of the main Boknafjorden. Strand Church is located in the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,510 residents
- Description: settlement in Strand Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Tau, Norway”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Strand Church.
Strand Church
Church
Photo: Shauni, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Strand Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Strand Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Tau. It is the church for the Strand parish which is part of the Ryfylke prosti in the Diocese of Stavanger.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jørpeland.
Jørpeland
Town
Jørpeland is the administrative centre of Strand municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The town is located on the western coast of the mainland, along the shore of the Idsefjorden, about 20 kilometres northeast of the city of Stavanger. Jørpeland is situated 8 km southeast of Tau.
Tau
- Categories: urban area in Norway, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Strand, Rogaland, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.06477° or 59° 3′ 53″ northLongitude
5.9225° or 5° 55′ 21″ eastPopulation
3,510Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO TAUOpen location code
9FF73W7F+W2OpenStreetMap ID
node 267971440OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Tau” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Тау”
- Cebuano: “Tau”
- Danish: “Tau”
- Dutch: “Tau”
- Finnish: “Tau”
- French: “Tau”
- German: “Tau”
- Irish: “Tau”
- Malay: “Tau, Norway”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tau i Ryfylke”
- Norwegian: “Tau”
- Portuguese: “Tau”
- Romanian: “Tau”
- Slovenian: “Tau”
- Spanish: “Tau”
- Swedish: “Tau, Norge”
- Swedish: “Tau”
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