Skei
Skei is a village in Sogn og Fjordane. It is situated in beautiful surroundings at the Jølstervatnet lake. Surrounded by steep mountains, and the Jostedalsbreen glacier nearby. Skei is the centre of Jølster district and this article covers both.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Efarestv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Efarestv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 549 residents
- Description: settlement in Sunnfjord Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Skei i Jølster”, “Skei I Jølster”, and “Skei, Vestland”
Skei
- Categories: urban area in Norway and locality
- Location: Sunnfjord Municipality, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.5715° or 61° 34′ 17″ northLongitude
6.4792° or 6° 28′ 45″ eastPopulation
549Elevation
240 metres (787 feet)Open location code
9FH8HFCH+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 61948710OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6695932Wikidata ID
Q600533
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Skei” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Skei”
- Chinese: “司曳”
- Chinese: “谢伊”
- Danish: “Skei i Jølster”
- Dutch: “Skei”
- French: “Skei”
- German: “Skei”
- Malay: “Skei, Sogn og Fjordane”
- Malay: “Skei”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skei i Jølster”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skei”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skei i Jølster”
- Norwegian: “Skei”
- Polish: “Skei”
- Romanian: “Skei”
- Russian: “Скей”
- Spanish: “Skei”
- Swedish: “Skei”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Skei”. Photo: Efarestv, CC BY-SA 3.0.