Fitjar
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Frokor, Public domain.
Places of Interest
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.
Fitjar
- Type: Village with 1,820 residents
- Description: settlement in Fitjar Municipality, Norway
- Categories: urban area in Norway, administrative center, and locality
- Location: Fitjar, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.91798° or 59° 55′ 5″ northLongitude
5.3171° or 5° 19′ 2″ eastPopulation
1,820Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO FITOpen location code
9FF7W898+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 421901514OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Fitjar” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fitjar (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Fitjar”
- Danish: “Fitjar”
- Dutch: “Fitjar”
- French: “Fitjar”
- German: “Fitjar”
- Italian: “Fitjar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fitjar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fitjar sentrum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fitjar”
- Norwegian: “Fitjar”
- Polish: “Fitjar”
- Portuguese: “Fitjar”
- Romanian: “Fitjar”
- Spanish: “Fitjar”
- Swedish: “Fitjar kommun”
- Swedish: “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.