Borre

Borre is a village in Horten Municipality in county, . The village is located about 5 kilometres south of the town of Horten, along the shores of the Ytre Oslofjord.
Wikipedia
Photo: Wolfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Village with 1,060 residents
  • Description: village in the municipality of Horten, Vestfold
  • Also known as: “Borre, Norway”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Borre Church and Borre mound cemetery.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Horten Municipality in county, . It is located in the village of Borre. It is one of the churches for the Borre parish which is part of the Nord-Jarlsberg prosti in the Diocese of Tunsberg.

Photo: Wolfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
forms part of the Borre National Park at in , . It is home to seven large and 21 smaller burial mounds. Excavations in the 1980s revealed that the oldest mounds date to 600 AD, i.e. prior to the Viking Age.

School
Photo: PeterFisk, Public domain.
is a school.

Borre

Latitude
59.38147° or 59° 22′ 53″ north
Longitude
10.45515° or 10° 27′ 19″ east
Population
1,060
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NO BRR
Open location code
9FFG9FJ4+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 324372557
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
9403960
Wiki­data ID
Q1771491
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Satellite Map

Discover Borre from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Borre” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Borre, Norway”
  • Cebuano: “Borre”
  • Danish: “Borre”
  • Dutch: “Borre”
  • French: “Borre”
  • Irish: “Borre”
  • Malay: “Borre, Norway”
  • Malay: “Borre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Borre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borre”
  • Norwegian: “Borre”
  • Romanian: “Borre”
  • Swedish: “Borre, Norge”
  • Swedish: “Borre”

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Highlights include Borrehallen and Borre Stasjon.

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