Hovden
Hovden is a small town situated in upper Setesdal in Aust Agder about 800m above sea level. The scenery here is beautiful with mountains, open country, water and birch woodland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 464 residents
- Description: settlement in Bykle municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Hovde”, “Hovden I Setesdal”, and “Hovden, Agder”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fjellgardane Church and Kaldsåni power station.
Fjellgardane Church
Church
Photo: Siri J, CC BY-SA 3.0 no.
Fjellgardane Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bykle Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hovden. It is one of the churches for the Bykle parish which is part of the Otredal prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.
Kaldsåni power station
Industrial building
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kaldsåni power station is an industrial building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Breive.
Breive
Hamlet
Breive is a village in Bykle municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located in the northern part of the Setesdalen valley, on the northern shore of the lake Breivevatnet, about 5 kilometres west of the village of Hovden. Breive is situated 4 km northwest of Hovden.
Hovden
- Categories: human settlement, urban area in Norway, ski resort, and locality
- Location: Bykle, Agder, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.5602° or 59° 33′ 37″ northLongitude
7.356° or 7° 21′ 22″ eastPopulation
464Elevation
782 metres (2,566 feet)Open location code
9FF9H964+3COpenStreetMap ID
node 24935671OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3151676Wikidata ID
Q1277657
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hovden” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hovden, Aust-Agder”
- Cebuano: “Hovden”
- Danish: “Hovden i Setesdal”
- Danish: “Hovden”
- Dutch: “Hovden (Setesdal)”
- Dutch: “Hovden”
- Finnish: “Hovden”
- French: “Hovden”
- German: “Hovden”
- Javanese: “Hovden, Aust-Agder”
- Javanese: “Hovden”
- Malay: “Hovden, Aust-Agder”
- Malay: “Hovden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hovden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hovden i Setesdal”
- Norwegian: “Hovden”
- Polish: “Hovden”
- Romanian: “Hovden”
- Russian: “Ховден”
- Spanish: “Hovden”
- Swedish: “Hovden, Agder”
- Swedish: “Hovden”
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