Brevik
Brevik is a town in Porsgrunn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The town is located where the Eidangerfjorden and Frierfjorden join together to form the Breviksfjorden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hallvard Straume, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 3,000 residents
- Description: settlement in Porsgrunn Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Brevik, Norway”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brevik Church and Brevik Bridge.
Brevik Church
Church
Photo: Hallvard Straume, Public domain.
Brevik Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsgrunn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Brevik. It is one of the churches for the Eidanger parish which is part of the Skien prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.
Brevik Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Hallvard Straume, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brevik Bridge is one of two bridges that span the mouth of the Frierfjord. It connects the municipalities of Bamble and Porsgrunn in Telemark county. On the west side, in Bamble, lies the town of Stathelle, while on the east side lies the town of Brevik in Porsgrunn.
Grenland Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Hallvard Straume, Public domain.
Grenland Bridge is Norway's highest cable-stayed bridge with a tower height of 168 metres. The bridge, which opened in 1996, is part of the European Route E18 highway and it crosses the Frierfjord, a fjord in Telemark county.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Langesund.
Langesund
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Langesund is the administrative centre of Bamble Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The town is located on a peninsula along the Langesundsfjorden near the Skaggerak coast.
Brevik
- Categories: urban area in Norway and locality
- Location: Porsgrunn, Telemark, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.05289° or 59° 3′ 10″ northLongitude
9.69998° or 9° 41′ 60″ eastPopulation
3,000Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO BVKOpen location code
9FFF3M3X+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1300644558OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Brevik” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բրևիկ”
- Asturian: “Brevik”
- Belarusian: “Брэвік”
- Bulgarian: “Бревик”
- Catalan: “Brevik”
- Cebuano: “Brevik”
- Chinese: “布雷維克”
- Chinese: “布雷维克”
- Danish: “Brevik”
- Dutch: “Brevik”
- Finnish: “Brevik”
- French: “Brevik”
- German: “Brevik”
- Greek: “Μπρέβικ”
- Italian: “Brevik”
- Malay: “Brevik”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brevig”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brevik”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brevik”
- Norwegian: “Brevik”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brevik”
- Persian: “برویک”
- Polish: “Brevik”
- Portuguese: “Brevik”
- Russian: “Бревик”
- Silesian: “Brevik”
- Slovenian: “Brevik”
- Spanish: “Brevik”
- Swedish: “Brevik, Norge”
- Swedish: “Brevik”
- Tamil: “பிரெவிக்”
- Ukrainian: “Бревік”
- “Brevik”
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