Alversund

Alversund is a village in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland of the Lindås peninsula, along the shore of the Alverstraumen strait.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Alversund Church and Knarvik church.

Alversund Church

Church

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Alversund Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Alversund.

Knarvik Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Knarvik. It is one of the four churches for the Knarvik parish which is part of the Nordhordland prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. Knarvik church is situated 4 km southeast of Alversund.

Grasdal skule

School

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Grasdal skule is a school, which is situated 2½ km southwest of Alversund.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Knarvik and Hylkje.

Knarvik

Town

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Knarvik is the administrative centre of Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland, about 20 km straight north of Bergen at the confluence of four fjords: Osterfjorden, Sørfjorden, Salhusfjorden, and the Radfjorden. Knarvik is situated 4 km southeast of Alversund.

Hylkje

Village

Hylkje is a village in the borough of Åsane in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village lies in the northeastern part of the municipality, along the Sørfjorden. Hylkje is situated 9 km southeast of Alversund.

Alversund

Type: Village
Description: village in Alver, Norway
Categories: human settlement, hamlet, and locality
Location: Alver Municipality, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude

60.5711° or 60° 34′ 16″ north

Longitude

5.23479° or 5° 14′ 5″ east

Elevation

60 metres (197 feet)

Open location code

9FG7H6CM+CW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3104517311

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

9536922

Wikidata ID

Q4737996

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Alversund” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Alversund”
Danish: “Alversund”
Dutch: “Alversund”
Finnish: “Alversund”
French: “Alversund”
German: “Alversund”
Irish: “Alversund”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Alversund”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alversund”
Norwegian: “Alversund”
Persian: “الورساند”
Slovenian: “Alversund”
Swedish: “Alversund”

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Notable Places Nearby

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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 “Alversund”. Photo: B Ystebo, CC BY-SA 2.0.