Borgund Municipality
Borgund is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The 569-square-kilometre municipality existed from 1864 until its dissolution in 1964.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Borgund Stave Church and Borgund Church.
Borgund Stave Church
Museum
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Borgund Stave Church is a former parish church initially of the Catholic Church and later the Church of Norway in Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
Borgund Church
Church
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Borgund Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Borgund. It is the church for the Borgund parish which is part of the Sogn prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
Borgund Municipality
- Type: Village with 100 residents
- Description: former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
- Categories: former municipality of Norway and locality
- Location: Lærdal, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.04869° or 61° 2′ 55″ northLongitude
7.81342° or 7° 48′ 48″ eastPopulation
100Elevation
497 metres (1,631 feet)Open location code
9FH92RX7+F9OpenStreetMap ID
node 9089089467OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11746432Wikidata ID
Q66088042
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Welsh—“Borgund Municipality” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Bardas Borgund”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borgund kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borgund”
- Norwegian: “Borgund”
- Russian: “Боргунн”
- Swedish: “Borgunds kommun, Sogn og Fjordane”
- Swedish: “Borgunds kommun”
- Turkish: “Borgund”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Borgund”
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