Hvaler
Hvaler is a municipality in the county of Østfold, Norway. Consisting of a group of island and a population of 3,694. There are about 830 islands in total, most are uninhabited. The four main islands are Vesterøy, Spjærøy, Asmaløy and Kirkøy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Norway with 4,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Østfold, Norway
- Also known as: “3011” and “Hvaler Municipality”
- Neighbors: Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg
Photo: Kyrre, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Homlungen Lighthouse and Hvaler.
Homlungen Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Homlungen Lighthouse is a fully automated leading lighthouse situated on a skerry in the archipelago municipality of Hvaler, Norway. The lighthouse and surrounding buildings, which include residences, outhouse, a well, and engine house are proposed protected as a national park.
Lauer
Island
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Lauer is a small island in the Hvaler municipality in South-East Norway. The Hvaler islands are located in the Oslofjord, not far from the border with Sweden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skjærhalden and Korshavn.
Skjærhalden
Village
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Skjærhalden is the administrative centre of Hvaler municipality, Norway. It is located on the island Kirkeøy, location of the Ytre Hvaler National Park center. Its population is 642.
Hvaler
- Location: Østfold, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Hvaler” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Hvaler”
- Armenian: “Վալեր (Էստֆոլդ)”
- Armenian: “Վալեր”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Hvaler (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Hvaler kommune”
- Asturian: “Hvaler”
- Basque: “Hvaler”
- Belarusian: “Валер”
- Bishnupriya: “হভালের”
- Catalan: “Hvaler”
- Cebuano: “Hvaler (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Hvaler”
- Chinese: “Hvaler”
- Chinese: “瓦勒尔”
- Chinese: “瓦勒爾”
- Czech: “Hvaler”
- Danish: “Hvaler kommune”
- Dutch: “Hvaler”
- Esperanto: “Hvaler”
- Estonian: “Hvaleri vald”
- Finnish: “Hvaler”
- French: “Hvaler”
- German: “Hvaler”
- Hebrew: “הבלר”
- Irish: “Hvaler”
- Italian: “Hvaler”
- Japanese: “ヴァーレル”
- Japanese: “バーラ島”
- Javanese: “Hvaler”
- Latin: “Hvaler”
- Limburgan: “Hvaler”
- Lithuanian: “Hvaleris”
- Low German: “Kommun Hvaler”
- Malay: “Hvaler”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hvaler”
- Northern Sami: “Hvaler”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvaler kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvaler”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hvaler kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hvaler”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Hvaler”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valer kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valer”
- Norwegian: “Hvaler”
- Polish: “Hvaler”
- Portuguese: “Hvaler”
- Romanian: “Hvaler”
- Russian: “Валер”
- Spanish: “Hvaler”
- Swahili: “Hvaler”
- Swedish: “Hvaler kommune”
- Swedish: “Hvaler”
- Swedish: “Hvalers kommun”
- Turkish: “Hvaler”
- Vietnamese: “Hvaler”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hvaler”
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