Sandnessjøen
Sandnessjøen is a town and the administrative centre of Alstahaug Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Sandnessjøen was granted special trading privileges in the late 1600s, but it did not receive town status until 1999.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jensens, Public domain.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandnessjøen Church and Sandnessjøen videregående skole.
Sandnessjøen Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sandnessjøen Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alstahaug Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the town of Sandnessjøen.
Sandnessjøen videregående skole
School
Photo: Hanfranord2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandnessjøen videregående skole is a school.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hestad.
Hestad
Hamlet
Hestad is a village in Dønna Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located on the southern part of the island of Dønna, about 6 kilometres northwest of the mainland town of Sandnessjøen. Hæstad Church is located in the village. Hestad is situated 6 km northwest of Sandnessjøen.
Sandnessjøen
- Type: Town with 6,110 residents
- Description: settlement in Alstahaug Municipality, Norway
- Categories: city, administrative center, urban area in Norway, and locality
- Location: Alstahaug Municipality, Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
66.02155° or 66° 1′ 18″ northLongitude
12.63172° or 12° 37′ 54″ eastPopulation
6,110Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
SSJUnited Nations Location Code
NO SSJOpen location code
9FRJ2JCJ+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 31264135OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3140301Wikidata ID
Q1004686
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sandnessjøen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساندنشان”
- Asturian: “Sandnessjøen”
- Bulgarian: “Саннесшьоен”
- Catalan: “Sandnessjøen”
- Cebuano: “Sandnessjøen”
- Chinese: “桑內捨恩”
- Chinese: “桑內捨恩镇”
- Chinese: “桑內舍恩”
- Chinese: “桑內舍恩鎮”
- Chinese: “桑內舍恩镇”
- Danish: “Sandnessjøen”
- Dutch: “Sandnessjoen”
- Dutch: “Sandnessjøen”
- Finnish: “Sandnessjöen”
- Finnish: “Sandnessjøen”
- Finnish: “Stamnes”
- French: “Sandnessjoen”
- French: “Sandnessjøen”
- German: “Sandnessjoen”
- German: “Sandnessjøen”
- Hungarian: “Sandnessjoen”
- Hungarian: “Sandnessjøen”
- Italian: “Sandnessjøen”
- Japanese: “サンドネショエン”
- Northern Sami: “Sandnessjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandnessjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sandnesjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sandnessjøen”
- Norwegian: “Sandnessjøen”
- Persian: “ساندنشان”
- Polish: “Sandnessjøen”
- Romanian: “Sandnessjøen”
- Russian: “Санднессьёен”
- Russian: “Саннесшёэн”
- Serbian: “Санднесшеен”
- Spanish: “Sandnessjøen”
- Swedish: “Sandnessjöen”
- Swedish: “Sandnessjøen”
- Ukrainian: “Санднессйоен”
- Ukrainian: “Санднессьйоен”
- Ukrainian: “Саннесшеен”
- “Sandnessjøen”
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