Norway
Western Norway
Hordaland

Bergen

Bergen is 's second largest city and the most popular gateway to the fjords of West Norway. The city is renowned for its great location amidst mountains, fjords, and the ocean.
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  • Type: City with 272,000 residents
  • Description: Norwegian city in Vestland, Norway
  • Also known as: “Bjørgvin”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bryggen Hanseatic Wharf and Grieg Hall.

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Bryggen, also known as Tyskebryggen, is a series of Hanseatic heritage commercial buildings lining up the eastern side of the in the city of Bergen, .

Music venue
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is a 1,500 seat concert hall located on Edvard Griegs plass in Bergen, . Grieghallen was named in honor of Bergen-born composer Edvard Grieg, who served as music director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1880 until 1882.

Peak
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or Fløyfjellet is one of the "seven city mountains" in Bergen, , . Its highest point is 400 m above sea level. The name could originate from fløystangen or a weather vane that was set up to indicate the direction of the wind for sailing ships.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Askøy and Sandviksfjellet.

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is an island in county, . Located directly north-west of Bergen, parts of the island functions as a suburb of the city. However, particularly the northern and western parts of the 30 km long island have beautiful rural landscapes, culminating in the small island community of Herdla, linked to by a short bridge.

Locality
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is a mountain in the city of Bergen in Vestland county, . It is one of the traditional seven mountains that surround the city centre of Bergen.

Locality
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is a locality.

Bergen

Latitude
60.3877° or 60° 23′ 16″ north
Longitude
5.3319° or 5° 19′ 55″ east
Population
272,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
BGO
United Nations Location Code
NO BGO
Open location code
9FG798QJ+3Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21261083
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3161732
Wiki­data ID
Q26793
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Bergen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bergen”
  • Albanian: “Bergen”
  • Amharic: “በርግን”
  • Arabic: “برغن”
  • Aragonese: “Bergen (Noruega)”
  • Aragonese: “Bergen”
  • Armenian: “Բերգեն”
  • Asturian: “Bergen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bergen”
  • Balinese: “Bergen”
  • Banjar: “Bergen”
  • Basque: “Bergen”
  • Belarusian: “Берген”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрген”
  • Bengali: “বার্গেন”
  • Bishnupriya: “বারগেন”
  • Bosnian: “Bergen”
  • Breton: “Bergen”
  • Bulgarian: “Берген”
  • Catalan: “Bergen”
  • Cebuano: “Bergen”
  • Central Kurdish: “بارگن”
  • Chechen: “Берген”
  • Chinese: “Bergen”
  • Chinese: “卑尔根”
  • Chinese: “卑爾根”
  • Croatian: “Bergen”
  • Czech: “Bergen”
  • Danish: “Bergen by”
  • Danish: “Bergen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bergen”
  • Dutch: “Bergen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برجن”
  • Erzya: “Берген ош”
  • Esperanto: “Bergen,Norvegio”
  • Esperanto: “Bergen”
  • Esperanto: “Bergeno”
  • Estonian: “Bergen”
  • Faroese: “Bergen”
  • Faroese: “Bjørgvin”
  • Finnish: “Bergen”
  • Finnish: “Bjørgvin”
  • French: “Bergen”
  • French: “Bergue”
  • French: “Flesland”
  • Galician: “Bergen”
  • Georgian: “ბერგენი”
  • German: “Bergen (Hordaland)”
  • German: “Bergen”
  • German: “Bjørgvin”
  • Greek: “Μπέργκεν”
  • Gujarati: “બર્ગન”
  • Gujarati: “બર્ગેન”
  • Hausa: “Bergen”
  • Hebrew: “ברגן”
  • Hindi: “बर्गेन”
  • Hindi: “बेर्गेन”
  • Hungarian: “Bergen”
  • Icelandic: “Bergen”
  • Icelandic: “Björgvin”
  • Ido: “Bergen”
  • Inari Sami: “Bergen”
  • Indonesian: “Bergen”
  • Indonesian: “Bjørgvin”
  • Interlingua: “Bergen”
  • Interlingue: “Bergen”
  • Irish: “Bergen”
  • Irish: “Boirbhe”
  • Italian: “Bergen”
  • Japanese: “ベルゲン”
  • Javanese: “Bergen”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bergen”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆರ್ಗೆನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bergen”
  • Korean: “베르겐”
  • Kven Finnish: “Peruna”
  • Latin: “Berga”
  • Latin: “Bergen”
  • Latvian: “Bergen”
  • Latvian: “Bergena”
  • Limburgan: “Bergen”
  • Lithuanian: “Bergenas”
  • Lombard: “Bergen”
  • Low German: “Bargen”
  • Low German: “Bergen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bergen”
  • Macedonian: “Берген”
  • Malagasy: “Bergen”
  • Malay: “Bergen”
  • Maltese: “Bergen”
  • Maori: “Bergen”
  • Marathi: “बार्गन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bergen”
  • Moksha: “Бэргэн”
  • Nauru: “Bergen”
  • Nepali: “बर्गन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bergen”
  • Northern Sami: “Bergen”
  • Northern Sami: “Birgon”
  • Northern Sami: “Peruna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bergen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bergen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tettstaden Bergen”
  • Norwegian: “Bergen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bergen”
  • Ossetian: “Берген”
  • Persian: “برگن”
  • Piemontese: “Bergen”
  • Pite Sami: “Bergun”
  • Pite Sami: “Berguna”
  • Polish: “Bergen”
  • Portuguese: “Berga”
  • Portuguese: “Bergen”
  • Pushto: “برګين”
  • Romanian: “Bergen, Norvegia”
  • Romanian: “Bergen”
  • Russian: “Берген”
  • Russian: “Бьёргвин”
  • Samogitian: “Bergens”
  • Scots: “Bergen”
  • Serbian: “Берген”
  • Serbian: “Категорија:Берген”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bergen”
  • Silesian: “Bergen”
  • Sinhala: “බර්ගන්”
  • Slovak: “Bergen”
  • Slovenian: “Bergen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برقن”
  • Spanish: “Bergen”
  • Spanish: “Bjorgvin”
  • Spanish: “Bjørgvin”
  • Swahili: “Bergen”
  • Swedish: “Bergen, Norge”
  • Swedish: “Bergen”
  • Swedish: “Bjørgvin”
  • Swiss German: “Bergen”
  • Tajik: “Берген”
  • Tamil: “பெர்கன்”
  • Tamil: “பெர்கென்”
  • Tamil: “பேர்கன்”
  • Tatar: “Берген”
  • Telugu: “బర్గెన్”
  • Thai: “Bergen”
  • Thai: “บาร์เกิน”
  • Thai: “แบร์เกน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bergen”
  • Tumbuka: “Bergen”
  • Turkish: “Bergen, Norveç”
  • Turkish: “Bergen”
  • Ukrainian: “Берген”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bergen”
  • Urdu: “برگن”
  • Uzbek: “Bergen”
  • Venetian: “Bergen”
  • Veps: “Bergen”
  • Vietnamese: “Bergen, Na Uy”
  • Vietnamese: “Bergen”
  • Vlaams: “Bergn”
  • Volapük: “Bergen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bergen”
  • Welsh: “Bergen”
  • Western Armenian: “Պէրկըն”
  • Western Frisian: “Bergen”
  • Western Panjabi: “برگن”
  • Wu Chinese: “卑尔根”
  • Yue Chinese: “卑爾根”
  • Zeeuws: “Bergen”
  • “Bergen”
  • “Bergens”
  • “ma tomo Peken”

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