Balestrand

Balestrand is a former municipality in the old county, . The 429-square-kilometre municipality existed from 1850 until its dissolution in 2020.
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  • Type: Village with 785 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 in the county of Vestland in . The church was built in 1897 as a stave church imitation and has 95 seats.

Museum
Photo: Reiselivsmuseum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a located in the village of Balestrand which is located in , Vestland county, .

Church
Photo: Arild Nybø, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a parish church of the Church of Norway in 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
785
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”
  • Urdu: “بالیسٹرانڈ بلدیہ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Balestrand”

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