East Norway
Telemark
Porsgrunn

Herøya

Herøya is a peninsula in Porsgrunn Municipality in county, . It is located between the fjords of to the west and Gunnekleivfjord to the east, at the mouth of Porsgrunn River.
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Photo: Ernst Vikne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: peninsula of Norway
  • Also known as: “Heroen”, “Heroya”, “Heroyo”, “Herroya”, and “Hoeröya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Herøya Church and Stridsklev Church.

Church
Photo: Vinguru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a of the Church of Norway in Porsgrunn Municipality in county, . It is located on Herøya in the .

Church
Photo: Vinguru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a of the Church of Norway in Porsgrunn Municipality in county, . It is located in the .

School
Photo: Far min, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a school.

Herøya

Latitude
59.112° or 59° 6′ 43″ north
Longitude
9.64833° or 9° 38′ 54″ east
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NO HRY
Open location code
9FFF4J6X+R8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1500546119
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
3152868
Wiki­data ID
Q1420136
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Satellite Map

Discover Herøya from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“Herøya” goes by many names.
  • Danish: “Herøya”
  • Dutch: “Herøya”
  • French: “Herøya”
  • German: “Herøya”
  • Irish: “Herøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herøen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herøya”
  • Norwegian: “Herøya”
  • Swedish: “Herøya”

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Highlights include Hydrohallen and Hydro idrettsanlegg.

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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 “Herøya”. Photo: Ernst Vikne, CC BY-SA 2.0.