Norway
Northern Norway
Troms

Harstad

Harstad is a city and municipality in the county of in on Norway's largest coastal island, Hinnøya. The region is very varied, with coastal mountains, fjords, some agriculture and a national park on the island: Møysalen National Park.
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  • Type: Town with 21,600 residents
  • Description: municipality in Troms County, Norway
  • Also known as: “5402” and “Harstad Municipality”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Trondenes Church and Trondenes Historical Center.

Church
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is the northernmost medieval stone church of and the world's northernmost surviving medieval building. It is a of the Church of Norway in Harstad Municipality in county, .

Museum
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is a museum located in , in the town of Harstad, in county, . The museum covers the history of Trondenes and the surrounding areas.

Church
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is a of the Church of Norway in Harstad Municipality in county, . It is located in the . It is the church for the Harstad parish which is part of the Trondenes prosti in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gansås.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood within the which is located in Harstad Municipality in county, . It is situated on the southern and western sides of a small peninsula southeast of the city center.

Harstad

Latitude
68.7999° or 68° 47′ 60″ north
Longitude
16.544° or 16° 32′ 39″ east
Population
21,600
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Open location code
9FWRQGXV+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21518370
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6453319
Wiki­data ID
Q62140
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Harstad” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Harstad”
  • Arabic: “هارستاد”
  • Armenian: “Հարսթադ”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Harstad (Noruega)”
  • Asturian: “Harstad kommune”
  • Asturian: “Harstad”
  • Basque: “Harstad”
  • Belarusian: “Харстад”
  • Bishnupriya: “হারস্টাড”
  • Bulgarian: “Хаща”
  • Catalan: “Harstad”
  • Cebuano: “Harstad (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Harstad”
  • Chinese: “Harstad”
  • Chinese: “哈尔斯塔”
  • Chinese: “哈爾斯塔”
  • Croatian: “Harstad”
  • Czech: “Harstad”
  • Danish: “Harstad Kommune”
  • Danish: “Harstad”
  • Dutch: “Harstad”
  • Esperanto: “Harstad”
  • Faroese: “Harstad kommuna”
  • Faroese: “Harstad”
  • Finnish: “Harstad”
  • French: “Harstad”
  • Galician: “Harstad”
  • German: “Gemeinde Harstad”
  • German: “Harstad”
  • Hebrew: “הארסטאד”
  • Hungarian: “Harstad község”
  • Icelandic: “Harstad”
  • Irish: “Harstad”
  • Italian: “Harstad”
  • Japanese: “ハーシュタ”
  • Japanese: “ハルスター”
  • Kalaallisut: “Harstad”
  • Korean: “하르스타”
  • Latin: “Harstad”
  • Limburgan: “Harstad”
  • Lithuanian: “Harstadas”
  • Low German: “Kommun Harstad”
  • Macedonian: “Харстад”
  • Malay: “Harstad”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Harstad”
  • Moksha: “Гарстад”
  • Northern Sami: “Hárštá”
  • Northern Sami: “Hársttáid suohkan”
  • Northern Sami: “Hárstták”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hárštá suohkan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harstad kommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harstad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hárštá suohkan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harstad kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Harstad”
  • Norwegian: “Harstad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Harstad”
  • Persian: “هارستاد”
  • Persian: “هاشتاد”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Harstad”
  • Polish: “Harstad”
  • Portuguese: “Harstad”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Harstad”
  • Romanian: “Harstad”
  • Russian: “Харстад”
  • Scots: “Harstad”
  • Serbian: “Харстад”
  • Silesian: “Harstad”
  • Slovenian: “Harstad”
  • Spanish: “Harstad”
  • Swahili: “Harstad”
  • Swedish: “Hárštá suohkan”
  • Swedish: “Harstad kommun”
  • Swedish: “Harstads kommun”
  • Turkish: “Harstad”
  • Ukrainian: “Гарстад”
  • Vietnamese: “Harstad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Harstad”

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