Kabelvåg
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Photo: Henrikdv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Henrikdv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 2,340 residents
- Description: settlement in Vågan Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Kabelvaag”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vågan Church and Kongsmarka power station.
Vågan Church
Church
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vågan Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vågan Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kabelvåg on the island of Austvågøya.
Kongsmarka power station
Industrial building
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kongsmarka power station is an industrial building, which is situated 3½ km north of Kabelvåg.
Leirfossen power station
Industrial building
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leirfossen power station is an industrial building, which is situated 4 km northeast of Kabelvåg.
Kabelvåg
- Categories: urban area in Norway and locality
- Location: Vågan, Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
68.21012° or 68° 12′ 36″ northLongitude
14.47738° or 14° 28′ 39″ eastPopulation
2,340Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO KABOpen location code
9FWP6F6G+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 220018283OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Kabelvåg” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Kabelvåg”
- Catalan: “Kabelvåg”
- Cebuano: “Kabelvåg”
- Chinese: “卡贝爾沃”
- Chinese: “卡贝爾沃镇”
- Danish: “Kabelvåg”
- Dutch: “Kabelvag”
- Dutch: “Kabelvåg”
- Finnish: “Kabelvåg”
- French: “Kabelvåg”
- German: “Kabelvag”
- German: “Kabelvåg”
- Javanese: “Kabelvåg”
- Malay: “Kabelvåg”
- Northern Sami: “Vágit”
- Northern Sami: “Váhki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kabelvåg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kabelvåg”
- Norwegian: “Kabelvåg”
- Ossetian: “Кабельвог”
- Romanian: “Kabelvåg”
- Russian: “Кабельвог”
- Spanish: “Kabelvåg”
- Swedish: “Kabelvåg”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Kabelvåg”. Photo: Henrikdv, CC BY-SA 4.0.