Vikøyri
Vikøyri is a village of 1200 people on the south side of the Sognefjorden. The medieval churches Hove Church and Hopperstad Stave Church, as well as Vik Church from 1877, are located here. It is the administrative center of the municipality of Vik.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,220 residents
- Description: settlement in Vik Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Vik”, “Vik i Sogn”, “Vikøra”, and “Viksøyri”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hopperstad Stave Church and Hove Church.
Hopperstad Stave Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hopperstad Stave Church is a historic parish church of the Church of Norway in the village of Vikøyri in Vik Municipality in Vestland county. It was historically the church for the Hopperstad parish in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
Hove Church
Church
Photo: Per Magne Kjøde, Public domain.
Hove Church is a historic parish church of the Church of Norway in Vik Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vikøyri on the Arnafjord, an arm of the Sognefjord.
Vik Church
Church
Photo: DeServian1431, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vik Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vik Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vikøyri. It is the church for the Vik parish which is part of the Sogn prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
Vikøyri
- Categories: urban area in Norway, administrative center, and locality
- Location: Vik, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.0874° or 61° 5′ 15″ northLongitude
6.5804° or 6° 34′ 49″ eastPopulation
1,220Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
9FH83HPJ+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 498815832OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3131653Wikidata ID
Q1805859
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Vikøyri” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vik”
- Danish: “Vik”
- Danish: “Vikøyri”
- Dutch: “Øyri”
- Dutch: “Vikoyri”
- Dutch: “Vikøyri”
- Dutch: “Viksoyri”
- Dutch: “Viksøyri”
- Finnish: “Vikøyri”
- French: “Vikøyri”
- German: “Vikøyri”
- Italian: “Vikøyri”
- Malay: “Vikøyri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vik i Sogn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vik”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vikøyri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Viksøyri”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vikøyri”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Viksøyri”
- Norwegian: “Vikøyri”
- Romanian: “Viksøyri”
- Spanish: “Viksøyri”
- Swedish: “Vikøyri”
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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 “Vikøyri”. Photo: Iz48, CC BY-SA 3.0.