Dirdal
Dirdal is a village in Gjesdal municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located where the Frafjorden joins the main Høgsfjorden. The village lies at the end of the Dirdalen valley, which stretches to the southeast from Dirdal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ingunn Holm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Western Norway, Norway
- Also known as: “Gilja”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dirdal Church and Dirdal power station.
Dirdal Church
Church
Photo: Jarvin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dirdal Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Gjesdal Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Dirdal. It is one of the three churches for the Gjesdal parish which is part of the Jæren prosti in the Diocese of Stavanger.
Dirdal power station
Electrical generator
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dirdal power station is an electrical generator.
Oltesvik power station
Industrial building
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oltesvik power station is an industrial building, which is situated 4 km northwest of Dirdal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forsand.
Forsand
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forsand is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 780-square-kilometre municipality existed from 1871 until 2020 when it was merged into Sandnes municipality.
Dirdal
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Gjesdal, Rogaland, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.83454° or 58° 50′ 4″ northLongitude
6.18132° or 6° 10′ 53″ eastElevation
10 metres (33 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO DIROpen location code
9FC8R5MJ+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 3647782176OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3159219Wikidata ID
Q3109103
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Dirdal” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Dirdal”
- Dutch: “Gilja”
- French: “Dirdal”
- Irish: “Dirdal”
- Javanese: “Dirdal”
- Malay: “Dirdal”
- Malay: “Gilja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dirdal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gilja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dirdal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gilja”
- Norwegian: “Dirdal”
- Romanian: “Gilja”
- Swedish: “Dirdal”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dirdal båthavn and Nonsknuden.
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