Borre
Borre is a village in Horten Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The village is located about 5 kilometres south of the town of Horten, along the shores of the Ytre Oslofjord.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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.
Borre Church
Church
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Borre Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Horten Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. 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.
Borre mound cemetery
Photo: Wolfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Borre mound cemetery forms part of the Borre National Park at Horten in Vestfold, Norway. 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.
Borre
- Categories: human settlement, urban area in Norway, and locality
- Location: Horten, Vestfold, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.38147° or 59° 22′ 53″ northLongitude
10.45515° or 10° 27′ 19″ eastPopulation
1,060Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO BRROpen location code
9FFG9FJ4+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 324372557OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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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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