Sandnessjøen

Sandnessjøen is a town and the administrative centre of in county, . Sandnessjøen was granted special trading privileges in the late 1600s, but it did not receive town status until 1999.
Wikipedia
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jensens, Public domain.
  • Type: Town with 6,110 residents
  • Description: settlement in Alstahaug Municipality, Norway
  • Also known as: “Sandnesjøen”, “Sandnessjoen”, “Sandnessjöen”, “Stamnes”, “Санднессьёен”, “Санднессьйоен”, and “桑內捨恩”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Sandnessjøen Church and Sandnessjøen videregående skole.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a parish church of the Church…

School
Photo: Hanfranord2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a school.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hestad.

Hamlet
is a village in in county, . is situated 6 km northwest of Sandnessjøen.

Sandnessjøen

Latitude
66.02159° or 66° 1′ 18″ north
Longitude
12.63167° or 12° 37′ 54″ east
Population
6,110
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
SSJ
UN/LOCODE
NO SSJ
Open location code
9FRJ2JCJ+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31264135
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3140301
Wiki­data ID
Q1004686
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Sandnessjøen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساندنشان”
  • Asturian: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sannesşyeyn”
  • Bulgarian: “Саннесшьоен”
  • Catalan: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Cebuano: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Chinese: “桑內舍恩”
  • Chinese: “桑内舍恩”
  • Danish: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Dutch: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Finnish: “Sandnessjøen”
  • French: “Sandnessjøen”
  • German: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Hungarian: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Italian: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Japanese: “サンドネショエン”
  • Northern Sami: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Persian: “ساندنشان”
  • Polish: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Romanian: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Russian: “Саннесшёэн”
  • Serbian: “Санднесшеен”
  • Spanish: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Swedish: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Turkish: “Sandnessjøen”
  • Ukrainian: “Санднессйоен”
  • Ukrainian: “Саннесшеен”
  • Urdu: “سینڈنیسیوئن”
  • “Sandnessjøen”

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