Balestrand

Balestrand is a former municipality in county, . It was located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn.
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  • Type: Village with 781 residents
  • Description: former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
  • Also known as: Balestrand Municipality
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Olaf’s Church and The Norwegian Museum of Travel and Tourism.

Church
Photo: 3s, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Olaf's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Balestrand in Sogndal Municipality in the county of Vestland in . The church was built in 1897 as a stave church imitation and has 95 seats.

Museum
is a located in in Vestland cou nty, . The main aim of the museum is to exhibit the history of tourism in Norway from the beginning of the boom in the 19th century, and until today.

Church
is a of the Church of Norway in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, . It is located just outside the village of Balestrand.

Balestrand

Latitude
61.2096° or 61° 12′ 35″ north
Longitude
6.5361° or 6° 32′ 10″ east
Population
781
United Nations Location Code
NO BLS
Open location code
9FH86G5P+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 138044945
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3162116
Wiki­data ID
Q493292
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Balestrand” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Balestrand
  • Asturian: Balestrand kommune
  • Asturian: Balestrand
  • Asturian: conceyu de Balestrand (Noruega)
  • Basque: Balestrand
  • Bishnupriya: বালেস্ট্রান্ড
  • Catalan: Balestrand
  • Cebuano: Balestrand
  • Chinese: Balestrand
  • Chinese: 巴勒斯特蘭
  • Danish: Balestrand
  • Dutch: Balestrand
  • Esperanto: Balestrand
  • Finnish: Balestrand
  • French: Balestrand
  • German: Balestrand
  • Irish: Balestrand
  • Italian: Balestrand
  • Japanese: バーレストランド
  • Javanese: Balestrand
  • Korean: 발레스트란
  • Latin: Balestrand
  • Limburgan: Balestrand
  • Low German: Kommun Balestrand
  • Malay: Balestrand
  • Min Nan Chinese: Balestrand
  • Northern Sami: Balestrand
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Balestrand kommune
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Balestrand
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Balestrand kommune
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Balestrand
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Kommunen Balestrand
  • Norwegian: Balestrand
  • Polish: Balestrand
  • Portuguese: Balestrand
  • Romanian: Balestrand
  • Romanian: Comuna Balestrand
  • Russian: Балестранн
  • Slovenian: Balestrand
  • Spanish: Balestrand
  • Swahili: Balestrand
  • Swedish: Balestrand kommun
  • Swedish: Balestrands kommun
  • Turkish: Balestrand
  • Ukrainian: Балестранд
  • Ukrainian: Балестранн
  • Waray (Philippines): Balestrand

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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 “Balestrand”. Photo: Nelson Minar, CC BY-SA 2.0.