Tanum

Tanum is a municipality in . It is best known for the numerous bronze age and iron age rock carvings, which were inscribed on the UNESCO cultural heritage list in 1994.
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  • Type: Municipality with 12,800 residents
  • Description: municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “1435”, “Commune De Tanum”, “conceyu de Tanums (Suecia)”, “komunumo Tanum”, “Municipalità di Tanum”, “Tanum kommun”, “Tanum Municipality”, “Tanums gielda”, and “Танумская коммуна”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Underslös museum.

Museum
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Tanum

Latitude
58.75° or 58° 45′ north
Longitude
11.4167° or 11° 25′ east
Population
12,800
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
Open location code
9FCHQC28+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302270563
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
2669414
Wiki­data ID
Q511228
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Tanum” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Tanum”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tanum bələdiyyəsi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tanum Bələdiyyəsi”
  • Basque: “Tanum udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Танум”
  • Bulgarian: “Танум”
  • Catalan: “Tanum”
  • Cebuano: “Tanums Kommun”
  • Chinese: “塔努姆市鎮”
  • Chinese: “塔努姆市镇”
  • Danish: “Tanum Kommune”
  • Danish: “Tanums kommun”
  • Dutch: “Tanum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تانوم (بلديه)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تانوم”
  • Esperanto: “Tanum”
  • Estonian: “Tanumi vald”
  • Faroese: “Tanums kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Tanumin kunta”
  • French: “Tanum”
  • Galician: “Tanum”
  • German: “Tanum”
  • Italian: “Tanum”
  • Japanese: “タヌム”
  • Kazakh: “Танум”
  • Korean: “타눔시”
  • Ladin: “Tanum”
  • Limburgan: “Tanum”
  • Lombard: “Tanum”
  • Low German: “Kommun Tanum”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tanum Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tanum (Komuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tanum”
  • Northern Sami: “Tanuma gielda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tanums kommun”
  • Norwegian: “Tanum kommune”
  • Persian: “بخش تانوم”
  • Polish: “Gmina Tanum”
  • Portuguese: “Tanum”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Tanum”
  • Russian: “Танум”
  • Scots: “Tanum Municipality”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Tanum”
  • Spanish: “Tanum”
  • Swedish: “Tanums kommun”
  • Tagalog: “Bayan ng Tibro kommun”
  • Tagalog: “Tanum”
  • Turkish: “Tanum”
  • Ukrainian: “Танум”
  • Urdu: “ٹانوم بلدیہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Tanum”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Tanum”
  • “Tanums kommun”

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