Leira
Leira is a village in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the river Begna, about 2 kilometres to the southeast of the town of Fagernes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 944 residents
- Description: settlement in Nord-Aurdal Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Leira, Innlandet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Valdres Upper Secondary School and Faslefoss power station.
Valdres Upper Secondary School
School
Valdres Upper Secondary School is a high school in Leira, just south of the town of Fagernes in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The school is the primary high school for the vast majority of students in the greater Valdres area, and offers a relatively broad range of subjects.
Valdres Folkemuseum
Museum
Photo: Jeblad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Valdres Folkemuseum is a folk museum located at Storøya outside Fagernes in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. Valdres Folkemuseum is situated 3½ km west of Leira.
Leira
- Categories: urban area in Norway, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Nord-Aurdal Municipality, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.97128° or 60° 58′ 17″ northLongitude
9.29154° or 9° 17′ 30″ eastPopulation
944Elevation
420 metres (1,378 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO LEIOpen location code
9FGFX7CR+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 320377770OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Leira” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Leira”
- Danish: “Leira”
- Dutch: “Leira”
- Finnish: “Leira”
- French: “Leira”
- Irish: “Leira”
- Javanese: “Leira, Oppland”
- Javanese: “Leira”
- Malay: “Leira, Oppland”
- Malay: “Leira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leira i Valdres”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leira”
- Norwegian: “Leira”
- Romanian: “Leira”
- Spanish: “Leira (Noruega)”
- Spanish: “Leira (Oppland)”
- Spanish: “Leira”
- Swedish: “Leira”
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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 “Leira”. Photo: Vinguru, CC BY-SA 4.0.