Leira
Leira is a small village in Volda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It lies between the villages of Bjørke and Viddal, at the end of Hjørundfjorden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andreas lo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Sunnmøre, Norway
- Also known as: “Leira, Møre og Romsdal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bjørke Church and Tussa power station.
Bjørke Church
Church
Photo: Enok Kippersund, Public domain.
Bjørke Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Volda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bjørke at the innermost end of the Hjørundfjorden.
Leira
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ørsta, Møre og Romsdal, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.12197° or 62° 7′ 19″ northLongitude
6.586° or 6° 35′ 10″ eastElevation
101 metres (331 feet)Open location code
9FJ84HCP+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 5838358851OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Leira” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Leira”
- Dutch: “Leira, Ørsta”
- French: “Leira”
- Irish: “Leira”
- Javanese: “Leira, Ørsta”
- Malay: “Leira, Ørsta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leira”
- Norwegian: “Leira”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Leira”. Photo: Andreas lo, CC BY-SA 3.0.