Fitjar
Fitjar is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The municipality is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland. Fitjar municipality includes the northern part of the island of Stord and the hundreds of surrounding islands, mostly to the northwest of the main island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Frokor, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fitjar Church and Aarskog power station.
Fitjar Church
Church
Photo: Frokor, Public domain.
Fitjar Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Fitjar Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Fitjar. It is the church for the Fitjar parish which is part of the Sunnhordland prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
Aarskog power station
Industrial building
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aarskog power station is an industrial building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fitjar.
Fitjar
Village
Photo: Frokor, Public domain.
Fitjar is the administrative centre of Fitjar municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the northwestern shore of the island of Stord.
Fitjar
- Categories: municipality of Norway, locality, and agriculture
- Location: Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.9161° or 59° 54′ 58″ northLongitude
5.3299° or 5° 19′ 48″ eastPopulation
3,190Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
9FF7W88H+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 9987536827OpenStreetMap feature
place=farmGeoNames ID
3157435Wikidata ID
Q113491
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Fitjar” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Fitjar”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Fitjar (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Fitjar kommune”
- Asturian: “Fitjar”
- Basque: “Fitjar”
- Bishnupriya: “ফিটজার”
- Catalan: “Fitjar”
- Cebuano: “Fitjar”
- Chinese: “Fitjar”
- Chinese: “菲恰尔”
- Chinese: “菲恰爾”
- Danish: “Fitjar Kommune”
- Danish: “Fitjar”
- Dutch: “Fitjar”
- Esperanto: “Fitjar”
- Finnish: “Fitjar”
- French: “Fitjar”
- German: “Fitjar”
- Hungarian: “Fitjar”
- Irish: “Fitjar”
- Italian: “Fitjar”
- Javanese: “Fitjar”
- Latin: “Fitjar”
- Limburgan: “Fitjar”
- Low German: “Fitjar”
- Low German: “Kommun Fitjar”
- Malay: “Fitjar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fitjar”
- Northern Sami: “Fitjar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fitjar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fitjar kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fitje”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Fitjar”
- Norwegian: “Fitjar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fitjar”
- Polish: “Fitjar”
- Portuguese: “Fitjar”
- Portuguese: “Fitje”
- Romanian: “Fitjar”
- Russian: “Фитьяр”
- Slovenian: “Fitjar”
- Spanish: “Fitjar”
- Swahili: “Fitjar”
- Swedish: “Fitjar kommune”
- Swedish: “Fitjars kommun”
- Turkish: “Fitjar”
- Vietnamese: “Fitjar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fitjar”
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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 “Fitjar”. Photo: Frokor, Public domain.