Balestrand
Balestrand is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The 429-square-kilometre municipality existed from 1850 until its dissolution in 2020.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andrew Bowden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Nelson Minar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Olaf’s Church and The Norwegian Museum of Travel and Tourism.
St. Olaf’s Church
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 Norway. The church was built in 1897 as a stave church imitation and has 95 seats.
The Norwegian Museum of Travel and Tourism
Museum
Photo: Reiselivsmuseum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Norwegian Museum of Travel and Tourism is a museum located in the village of Balestrand which is located in Sogndal Municipality, Vestland county, Norway.
Tjugum Church
Church
Photo: Arild Nybø, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tjugum Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located just outside the village of Balestrand.
Balestrand
- Categories: former municipality of Norway and locality
- Location: Sogndal, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.2096° or 61° 12′ 35″ northLongitude
6.5361° or 6° 32′ 10″ eastPopulation
785United Nations Location Code
NO BLSOpen location code
9FH86G5P+RCOpenStreetMap ID
node 138044945OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3162116Wikidata ID
Q493292
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Satellite Map
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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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