Birkenes
Birkenes is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Birkeland, where about half the municipal population lives.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Norway with 5,340 residents
- Description: municipality in Agder, Norway
- Also known as: “4216”
- Neighbors: Kristiansand and Lillesand
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mollestad Oak and Birkenes Church.
Mollestad Oak
Photo: Friman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mollestad Oak is a monumental, legendary oak near the Norwegian village of Mollestad in the municipality of Birkenes, Norway. The oak has a circumference of 9.21 metres, measured in 2001, and a height of around 13 metres, which makes the Mollestad Oak one of the largest trees in Norway.
Birkenes Church
Church
Photo: Krg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Birkenes Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Birkenes Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Mollestad, about 3.5 kilometres southwest of the municipal centre of Birkeland. Birkenes Church is situated 3½ km southwest of Birkenes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Birkeland and Håbbesland.
Birkeland
Village
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Birkeland is the administrative centre of the municipality of Birkenes in Agder county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern shore of the river Tovdalselva, across the river from the village of Flakk.
Håbbesland
Hamlet
Håbbesland is a village in Birkenes municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located about 5 kilometres to the northeast of the municipal centre of Birkeland.
Mollestad
Hamlet
Mollestad is a village in Birkenes municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located on both sides of the river Tovdalselva, just south of the municipal centre of Birkeland.
Birkenes
- Location: Agder, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Birkenes” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Birkenes”
- Asturian: “Birkenes kommune”
- Asturian: “Birkenes”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Birkenes (Noruega)”
- Basque: “Birkenes”
- Bavarian: “Birkenes”
- Bishnupriya: “বিরকেনেস”
- Catalan: “Birkenes”
- Cebuano: “Birkenes”
- Chinese: “Birkenes”
- Chinese: “比尔克内斯”
- Chinese: “比爾克內斯”
- Danish: “Birkenes”
- Dutch: “Birkenes”
- Esperanto: “Birkenes”
- Estonian: “Birkenesi vald”
- Faroese: “Birkenes kommuna”
- Finnish: “Birkenes”
- French: “Birkenes”
- Galician: “Birkenes”
- German: “Birkenes”
- Hungarian: “Birkenes”
- Irish: “Birkenes”
- Italian: “Birkenes”
- Japanese: “ビルケネス”
- Javanese: “Birkenes”
- Latin: “Birkenes”
- Limburgan: “Birkenes”
- Low German: “Kommun Birkenes”
- Malay: “Birkenes”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Birkenes”
- Northern Sami: “Birkenes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Birkenes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birkenes kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birkenes”
- Norwegian: “Birkenes”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Birkenes”
- Persian: “بیرکنس”
- Polish: “Birkenes”
- Portuguese: “Birkenes”
- Romanian: “Birkenes”
- Russian: “Биркенес”
- Slovenian: “Birkenes”
- Spanish: “Birkenes”
- Swahili: “Birkenes”
- Swedish: “Birkenes kommun”
- Turkish: “Birkenes”
- Ukrainian: “Біркенес”
- Vietnamese: “Birkenes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Birkenes”
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