Orust
Just off the Bohuslän coast, Orust is Sweden's fourth largest island. Only Gotland and Öland are larger, as well as Södertörn, which appears as a peninsula more than an island. Orust Municipality, Orusts kommun, also contains some minor islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Västgöten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: island with 15,200 residents
- Description: island in Sweden
- Also known as: “1421”, “Orust Kommun”, and “Orusts Kommun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Röra Church.
Orust
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Satellite Map
Discover Orust from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Swedish—“Orust” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Orust”
- Asturian: “Orust”
- Belarusian: “Уруст”
- Catalan: “Orust”
- Cebuano: “Orust”
- Chinese: “烏魯斯特島”
- Czech: “Orust”
- Danish: “Orust”
- Dutch: “Orust”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوروست”
- Finnish: “Orust”
- French: “Orust”
- German: “Orust”
- Greek: “Όρουστ”
- Greek: “Ούρουστ”
- Hebrew: “אורוסט”
- Icelandic: “Orust”
- Italian: “Orust”
- Japanese: “オルスト島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orust”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orust”
- Norwegian: “Orust”
- Ossetian: “Уруст”
- Polish: “Orust”
- Portuguese: “Orust”
- Russian: “Уруст”
- Spanish: “Orust”
- Swedish: “Orust”
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