Norway
Western Norway
Rogaland

Stavanger

Stavanger is 's fourth largest city, at almost 150,000 residents. It is the largest city in, and the administrative centre of, county in West Norway.
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  • Type: City with 242,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Rogaland, Norway
  • Also known as: “Stavanger municipality”, “Stavanger Municipality”, “Stavanger, Norway”, and “Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway”
  • Neighbors:
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Photo: Jan Hammershaug, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Norwegian Petroleum Museum and Stavanger Cathedral.

Museum
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is a museum documenting Norwegian oil and gas activities, located in Stavanger, Norway.

Church
Photo: Mathieu Marquer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is 's oldest cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Stavanger who leads the Diocese of Stavanger in the Church of Norway. It is located in the centre of the city of Stavanger which lies in the southwestern part of the large Stavanger Municipality in central county, .

Theater building
Photo: Jarvin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theatre in Stavanger, Norway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hillevåg and Hundvåg.

Suburb
is a borough of the city of Stavanger which lies in the southwestern part of the large municipality of Stavanger in county, . It is located southwest of the city centre, south of the lake , and north of the borough of .

Suburb
is a borough of the city of Stavanger which lies in the southwestern part of the large municipality of Stavanger in county, . The borough includes a number of islands lying to the north of the main city centre of Stavanger.

Suburb
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is an island in the municipality of Stavanger in county, . It is located in the borough of in the city of Stavanger. The 0.6-square-kilometre island was formerly separated from the island of by a small channel of water, but that was filled in.

Stavanger

Latitude
58.97° or 58° 58′ 12″ north
Longitude
5.7318° or 5° 43′ 55″ east
Population
242,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
SVG
United Nations Location Code
NO SVG
Open location code
9FC7XP9J+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30421326
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3137115
Wiki­data ID
Q25416
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Stavanger” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Stavanger”
  • Albanian: “Stavanger”
  • Arabic: “ستافانغر”
  • Arabic: “ستافنجر”
  • Aragonese: “Stavanger”
  • Armenian: “Սթավանգեր”
  • Armenian: “Ստավանգեր”
  • Arpitan: “Stavanger”
  • Asturian: “Stavanger”
  • Azerbaijani: “Stavanqer”
  • Basque: “Stavanger”
  • Bavarian: “Stavanger”
  • Belarusian: “Ставангер”
  • Bengali: “স্টাভাঙ্গের”
  • Bengali: “স্ট্যাভাঙ্গার”
  • Bishnupriya: “স্টাভানগের”
  • Bosnian: “Stavanger”
  • Breton: “Stavanger”
  • Bulgarian: “Ставангер”
  • Catalan: “Stavanger”
  • Cebuano: “Stavanger (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Stavanger”
  • Chechen: “Ставангер”
  • Chinese: “Stavanger”
  • Chinese: “斯塔万格”
  • Chinese: “斯塔凡格”
  • Chinese: “斯塔萬格”
  • Corsican: “Stavanger”
  • Croatian: “Stavanger”
  • Czech: “Stavanger”
  • Danish: “Stavanger”
  • Dutch: “Stavangen”
  • Dutch: “Stavanger”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ستاڤانجر”
  • Esperanto: “Stavanger”
  • Estonian: “Stavanger”
  • Faroese: “Stavanger”
  • Finnish: “Stavanger”
  • French: “Stavanger”
  • Friulian: “Stavanger”
  • Galician: “Stavanger”
  • German: “Stavanger”
  • Greek: “Σταβάνγκερ”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટાવૅન્જર”
  • Hausa: “Stavanger”
  • Hebrew: “סטאוונגר”
  • Hebrew: “סטוונגר”
  • Hindi: “स्टावेंगर”
  • Hungarian: “Stavanger”
  • Icelandic: “Stafangur”
  • Icelandic: “Stavanger”
  • Ido: “Stavanger”
  • Inari Sami: “Stavanger”
  • Indonesian: “Stavanger”
  • Interlingua: “Stavanger”
  • Interlingue: “Stavanger”
  • Irish: “Stavanger”
  • Italian: “Stavanger”
  • Italian: “Stavenger”
  • Italian: “Università di Stavanger”
  • Japanese: “スタヴァンガー”
  • Japanese: “スタヴァンゲル”
  • Japanese: “スタバンガー”
  • Japanese: “スタバンゲル”
  • Javanese: “Stavanger”
  • Kalaallisut: “Stavanger”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟಾವಂಗರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟಾವಂಗೆರ್”
  • Kongo: “Stavanger”
  • Korean: “스타방게르”
  • Korean: “스타방에르”
  • Latin: “Stafangria”
  • Latvian: “Stavanger kommune”
  • Latvian: “Stavangera”
  • Latvian: “Stavangeras pašvaldība”
  • Latvian: “Stavangeres komūna”
  • Ligurian: “Stavanger”
  • Limburgan: “Stavanger”
  • Lithuanian: “Stavanger”
  • Lithuanian: “Stavangeris”
  • Low German: “Kommun Stavanger”
  • Low German: “Stavanger”
  • Luxembourgish: “Stavanger”
  • Macedonian: “Ставангер”
  • Malagasy: “Stavanger”
  • Malay: “Stavanger”
  • Maltese: “Stavanger”
  • Maori: “Stavanger”
  • Marathi: “स्टावांग्यिर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Stavanger”
  • Minangkabau: “Stavanger”
  • Moksha: “Ставангэр”
  • Narom: “Stavanger”
  • Nauru: “Stavanger”
  • Neapolitan: “Stavanger”
  • Northern Frisian: “Stavanger”
  • Northern Sami: “Stavanger”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stavanger kommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stavanger”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Stavanger”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stavanger kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stavanger”
  • Norwegian: “Stavanger”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Stavanger”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stafangere”
  • Ossetian: “Ставангер”
  • Persian: “استاوانگر”
  • Picard: “Stavanger”
  • Piemontese: “Stavanger”
  • Polish: “Stavanger”
  • Portuguese: “Stavanger”
  • Pushto: “ستوانګر”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Stavanger”
  • Romanian: “Stavanger”
  • Romansh: “Stavanger”
  • Russian: “Ставангер”
  • Samogitian: “Stavangerės”
  • Samogitian: “Stavangeris”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱴᱟᱵᱷᱟᱝᱜᱮᱨ”
  • Sardinian: “Stavanger”
  • Scots: “Stavanger”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Stavanger”
  • Serbian: “Stavanger”
  • Serbian: “Ставангер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stavanger”
  • Sicilian: “Stavanger”
  • Silesian: “Stavanger”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ටාවෙන්ජර්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Stavanger”
  • Slovak: “Stavanger”
  • Slovenian: “Stavanger”
  • Somali: “Stavanger”
  • Spanish: “Stavanger”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⵜⴰⴼⴰⵏⴳⵔ”
  • Swahili: “Stavanger”
  • Swedish: “Stavanger kommun”
  • Swedish: “Stavanger”
  • Swedish: “Stavangers kommun”
  • Swiss German: “Stavanger”
  • Tachelhit: “Stavangr”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்டாவென்ஜர்”
  • Tatar: “Ставаңер”
  • Telugu: “స్టావంగెర్”
  • Telugu: “స్టావాంగర్”
  • Thai: “Stavanger”
  • Thai: “สตาวังเงร์”
  • Thai: “สตาวังเงอร์”
  • Tumbuka: “Stavanger”
  • Turkish: “Stavanger”
  • Ukrainian: “Ставангер”
  • Ukrainian: “Ставанґер”
  • Urdu: “ستاوانگیر”
  • Venetian: “Stavanger”
  • Veps: “Stavanger”
  • Vietnamese: “Stavanger”
  • Vlaams: “Stavanger”
  • Volapük: “Stavanger”
  • Walloon: “Stavanger”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Stavanger”
  • Welsh: “Stavanger”
  • Western Frisian: “Stavanger”
  • Western Panjabi: “ستاوانگیر”
  • Western Panjabi: “سٹاوانگر”
  • Wolof: “Stavanger”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯塔万格”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯塔凡格”
  • Zulu: “Stavanger”
  • “Stavanger”
  • “Stavangeris”

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