Langesund
Langesund is the administrative centre of Bamble Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The town is located on a peninsula along the Langesundsfjorden near the Skaggerak coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Marius Kallhardt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Langøytangen Lighthouse and Langesund Church.
Langøytangen Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Thordivel, Public domain.
Langøytangen Lighthouse is a fully automated coastal lighthouse situated on the island of Langøya in Langesund in municipality of Bamble, Norway. It marks the southern point of the Langesund Sound.
Langesund Church
Church
Photo: Kagee, Public domain.
Langesund Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bamble Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. 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
- Type: Town with 5,500 residents
- Description: administrative center of the municipality of Bamble, Norway
- Categories: village, administrative center, urban area in Norway, and locality
- Location: Bamble, Telemark, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.0007° or 59° 0′ 3″ northLongitude
9.7484° or 9° 44′ 54″ eastPopulation
5,500Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO LADOpen location code
9FFF2P2X+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 31264106OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Langesund” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կանգեսուն”
- 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”
- Ukrainian: “Лангесунн”
- Urdu: “لانگیسونڈ”
- Welsh: “Langesund”
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