Haugesund
Haugesund is a city in the county of Rogaland, in the West Norway region of Norway. The town offers a much wider range of goods and services than might be expected from a city of its size, due to its position as the definite centre of its relatively populous region.
- Type: City with 47,300 residents
- Description: municipality in Rogaland, Norway
- Also known as: “1106”, “conceyu de Haugesund (Noruega)”, “Haugesund kommun”, “Haugesund municipality”, “Haugesund Municipality”, “Haugesundas”, “HGS”, “HGSD”, “Kommunen Haugesund”, “Гауґесунн”, “Хавгерсунд”, “하우게순”, “ハウゲサン”, and “ヘウゲソン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Haugesund Stadion and Haugesund City Hall.
Haugesund Stadion
Pitch
Haugesund City Hall
Town hall
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norheim and Avaldsnes.
Norheim
Village
Avaldsnes
Village
Photo: Johan Christian Dahl, Public domain.Haugesund
- Categories: municipality of Norway and locality
- Location: Rogaland, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.4138° or 59° 24′ 50″ north
Longitude
5.2681° or 5° 16′ 5″ east
Population
47,300
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
9FF7C779+G6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Haugesund” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Haugesund”
- Arabic: “هاوغسوند”
- Armenian: “Հյոուգեսուն”
- Asturian: “Haugesund”
- Azerbaijani: “Hauqesund”
- Banjar: “Haugesund”
- Basque: “Haugesund”
- Belarusian: “Гаўгесун”
- Belarusian: “Хёўгесун”
- Bishnupriya: “হৌগেসুন্ড”
- Bulgarian: “Хаугесун”
- Catalan: “Haugesund”
- Cebuano: “Haugesund”
- Chinese: “海于格松”
- Czech: “Haugesund”
- Danish: “Haugesund Kommune”
- Danish: “Haugesund”
- Dutch: “Haugesund”
- Esperanto: “Haugesund”
- Estonian: “Haugesund”
- Faroese: “Haugesunds kommuna”
- Finnish: “Haugesund”
- French: “Haugesund”
- Galician: “Haugesund”
- Georgian: “ჰიოუგესუნის მუნიციპალიტეტი”
- German: “Haugesund”
- Greek: “Χάουγκεσουντ”
- Hebrew: “האוגסונד”
- Hungarian: “Haugesund”
- Icelandic: “Haugasund”
- Indonesian: “Haugesund”
- Interlingue: “Haugesund”
- Irish: “Haugesund”
- Italian: “Haugesund”
- Japanese: “ハウゲスン”
- Javanese: “Haugesund”
- Kalaallisut: “Haugesund”
- Korean: “헤우게순”
- Latin: “Haugesund”
- Latvian: “Haugesunda”
- Limburgan: “Haugesund”
- Lithuanian: “Haugesiundas”
- Low German: “Kommun Haugesund”
- Malay: “Haugesund”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Haugesund”
- Northern Sami: “Haugesund”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Haugesund”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haugesund kommune”
- Norwegian: “Haugesund”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Haugesund”
- Persian: “هاوگسون”
- Persian: “هوگسوند”
- Polish: “Haugesund”
- Portuguese: “Haugesund”
- Romanian: “Haugesund”
- Russian: “Хёугесунн”
- Scots: “Haugesund”
- Serbian: “Havesund”
- Serbian: “Хавесунд”
- Silesian: “Haugesund”
- Slovak: “Haugesund”
- Slovenian: “Haugesund”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوقسوند”
- Spanish: “Haugesund”
- Swahili: “Haugesund”
- Swedish: “Haugesunds kommun”
- Thai: “เฮาเกอซึน”
- Tumbuka: “Haugesund”
- Turkish: “Haugesund”
- Ukrainian: “Гаугесун”
- Ukrainian: “Гаугесунн”
- Ukrainian: “Геугесунн”
- Vietnamese: “Haugesund”
- Waray (Philippines): “Haugesund”
- Wu Chinese: “海于格松”
- “Haugesund”
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