Norway
Western Norway
Rogaland

Haugesund

Haugesund is a city in the county of , in the West Norway region of . 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.
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  • Type: City with 47,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Rogaland, Norway
  • Also known as: “1106”, “Haugesund municipality”, “Haugesund Municipality”, “HGS”, and “HGSD”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Haugesund Stadion and Haugesund City Hall.

Pitch
Photo: Hallgils2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, currently named Haugesund Sparebank Arena for sponsorship purposes, is a in Haugesund, . is the home ground of Eliteserien team FK Haugesund and 2. divisjon team SK Vard Haugesund.

Town hall
Photo: Sjoehest, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the city hall of Haugesund municipality in county, .

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norheim and Avaldsnes.

Village
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is a village in municipality in county, . The village is located along the Karmsundet strait immediately south of the , just over the municipal border inside Karmøy.

Village
Photo: Johan Christian Dahl, Public domain.
is a village in municipality in county, . The village is located on the northeastern part of the island of , along the Karmsundet strait, just south of the town of .

Haugesund

Latitude
59.4138° or 59° 24′ 50″ north
Longitude
5.2681° or 5° 16′ 5″ east
Population
47,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
9FF7C779+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21717610
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6453374
Wiki­data ID
Q109036
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Haugesund” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Haugesund”
  • Arabic: “هاوغسوند”
  • Armenian: “Հյոուգեսուն”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Haugesund (Noruega)”
  • Asturian: “Haugesund kommune”
  • Asturian: “Haugesund”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hauqesund”
  • Banjar: “Haugesund”
  • Basque: “Haugesund”
  • Belarusian: “Гаўгесун”
  • Belarusian: “Хёўгесун”
  • Bishnupriya: “হৌগেসুন্ড”
  • Bulgarian: “Хаугесун”
  • Catalan: “Haugesund”
  • Cebuano: “Haugesund”
  • Chinese: “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: “ハウゲサン”
  • Japanese: “ハウゲスン”
  • Japanese: “ヘウゲソン”
  • Javanese: “Haugesund”
  • Kalaallisut: “Haugesund”
  • Korean: “하우게순”
  • Korean: “헤우게순”
  • Latin: “Haugesund”
  • Latvian: “Haugesunda”
  • Limburgan: “Haugesund”
  • Lithuanian: “Haugesiundas”
  • Lithuanian: “Haugesundas”
  • Low German: “Kommun Haugesund”
  • Malay: “Haugesund”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Haugesund”
  • Northern Sami: “Haugesund”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haugesund kommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haugesund”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “HGS”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “HGSD”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haugesund kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “HGS”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “HGSD”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Haugesund”
  • Norwegian: “Haugesund”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Haugesund”
  • Persian: “هاوگسون”
  • Persian: “هوگسوند”
  • Polish: “Haugesund”
  • Portuguese: “Haugesund”
  • Romanian: “Haugesund”
  • Russian: “Хёугесунн”
  • Scots: “Haugesund”
  • Serbian: “Haugesund”
  • Serbian: “Havesund”
  • Serbian: “Хавгерсунд”
  • Serbian: “Хавесунд”
  • Silesian: “Haugesund”
  • Slovak: “Haugesund”
  • Slovenian: “Haugesund”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هوقسوند”
  • Spanish: “Haugesund”
  • Swahili: “Haugesund”
  • Swedish: “Haugesund kommun”
  • Swedish: “Haugesunds kommun”
  • Thai: “เฮาเกอซึน”
  • Tumbuka: “Haugesund”
  • Turkish: “Haugesund”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаугесун”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаугесунн”
  • Ukrainian: “Гауґесунн”
  • Ukrainian: “Геугесунн”
  • Vietnamese: “Haugesund”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Haugesund”
  • Wu Chinese: “海于格松”
  • “Haugesund”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Haugesund”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.