Alver Municipality
Alver is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Nordhordland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Knarvik.
- Type: municipality of Norway with 30,300 residents
- Description: municipality in Vestland, Norway
- Also known as: “4631”, “conceyu d’Alver (Noruega)”, and “Vestland”
- Neighbors: Askøy and Fedje
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hundvin Church and Myking Church.
Hundvin Church
Church
Myking Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Alver Municipality
- Location: Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.6719° or 60° 40′ 19″ north
Longitude
5.2835° or 5° 17′ 1″ east
Population
30,300
Elevation
220 metres (722 feet)
Open location code
9FG7M7CM+QC
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Alver Municipality” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Alver”
- Catalan: “Alver”
- Chinese: “阿尔韦尔”
- Danish: “Alver Kommune”
- Danish: “Alver”
- Dutch: “Alver”
- Esperanto: “Alver”
- Finnish: “Alver”
- French: “Alver”
- German: “Alver”
- Hungarian: “Alver”
- Irish: “Alver”
- Italian: “Alver”
- Japanese: “アルヴェ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alver”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alver kommune”
- Norwegian: “Alver”
- Portuguese: “Alver”
- Romanian: “Comuna Alver”
- Slovenian: “Občina Alver”
- Spanish: “Alver”
- Swedish: “Alvers kommun”
- Turkish: “Alver”
- Ukrainian: “Алвер”
- “Alver”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Grimstad and Leivestad.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Vikdalen and Esphaugane.
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Worth a closer look: Bergen and Stavanger.
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