Langesund

Langesund is the administrative centre of in county, . The town is located on a peninsula along the near the Skagerrak coast.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Langøytangen Lighthouse and Langøya.

Lighthouse
Photo: Thordivel, Public domain.
is a fully automated coastal lighthouse situated on the island of Langøya just off shore of the town of Langesund in in county, .

Nature reserve
Photo: GoranSjoberg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nature reserve.

Church
Photo: Kagee, Public domain.
is a parish church of the Church of Norway in in county, . It is located in the town of Langesund. It is the church for the Langesund parish which is part of the Bamble prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.

Langesund

Latitude
59.0007° or 59° 0′ 3″ north
Longitude
9.7484° or 9° 44′ 54″ east
Population
5,500
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NO LAD
Open location code
9FFF2P2X+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31264106
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3148354
Wiki­data ID
Q1805211
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Langesund” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Կանգեսուն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lanqesun”
  • Bavarian: “Langesund”
  • Belarusian: “Лангесун”
  • Bulgarian: “Лангесун”
  • Catalan: “Langesund”
  • Cebuano: “Langesund”
  • Chinese: “朗厄松”
  • Czech: “Langesund”
  • Danish: “Langesund”
  • Dutch: “Langesund”
  • Finnish: “Langesund”
  • French: “Langesund”
  • German: “Langesund”
  • Greek: “Λάνγκεσουντ”
  • Hebrew: “לנגסונד”
  • Italian: “Langesund”
  • Kazakh: “Лангесунн”
  • Korean: “랑에순”
  • Luxembourgish: “Langesund”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Langesund”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Langesund”
  • Norwegian: “Langesund”
  • Persian: “لانگسوند”
  • Russian: “Лангесунн”
  • Sicilian: “Langesund”
  • Slovenian: “Langesund”
  • Spanish: “Langesund”
  • Swedish: “Langesund”
  • Turkish: “Langesund”
  • Ukrainian: “Лангесунн”
  • Urdu: “لانگیسونڈ”
  • Welsh: “Langesund”

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