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 Skagerrak coast.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Langøytangen Lighthouse and Langøya.
Langøytangen Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Thordivel, Public domain.
Langesund Church
Church
Photo: Kagee, Public domain.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″ north
Longitude
9.7484° or 9° 44′ 54″ east
Population
5,500
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
UN/LOCODE
NO LAD
Open location code
9FFF2P2X+79
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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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