Voss
Voss is in a municipality in the inner part of Hordaland, between the great fjords of Sogn and Hardanger. Voss is known to be the adventure capital of Norway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 5,570 residents
- Description: municipality in Vestland, Norway
- Also known as: “Voss Municipality” and “Vossevangen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Voss Station and Ole Bull Academy.
Voss Station
Railway station
Photo: Aresenikk, Public domain.
Voss Station is a railway station on the Bergen Line located in the village of Vossevangen in the municipality of Voss in Vestland county, Norway. It sits just off the European route E16 highway on the northwestern shore of the lake Vangsvatnet.
Ole Bull Academy
University
The Ole Bull Academy is a Norwegian music college that offers college-level courses on Norwegian folk music and folk dance. Today, the Academy educates about 700 students annually, and over 9000 students had taken a course at the Academy in 2003.
Voss
Church
Photo: BjarteSorensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Voss Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vossevangen. It is the church for the Voss parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vossevangen.
Vossevangen
Town
Photo: BjarteSorensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vossevangen or Voss is the administrative centre of Voss municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
Voss
- Category: municipality of Norway
- Location: Hordaland, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Voss” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Voss”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Voss (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Voss kommune”
- Asturian: “Voss”
- Basque: “Voss”
- Belarusian: “Вос”
- Bishnupriya: “ভোস”
- Bulgarian: “Вос”
- Catalan: “Voss”
- Cebuano: “Voss (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Voss”
- Chinese: “Voss”
- Chinese: “沃斯”
- Czech: “Voss”
- Danish: “Voss Kommune”
- Danish: “Voss”
- Dutch: “Voss”
- Esperanto: “Voss”
- Estonian: “Voss”
- Estonian: “Vossi vald”
- Finnish: “Voss”
- Finnish: “Vossin kunta”
- French: “Voss”
- German: “Voss”
- Hebrew: “ווס”
- Hebrew: “ווֹס”
- Hungarian: “Voss”
- Irish: “Voss”
- Italian: “Voss”
- Japanese: “ヴォス”
- Javanese: “Voss”
- Korean: “보스”
- Latin: “Voss”
- Limburgan: “Voss”
- Lithuanian: “Vosas”
- Low German: “Kommun Voss”
- Macedonian: “Вос”
- Malay: “Voss”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Voss”
- Northern Sami: “Voss”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Voss kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Voss”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Voss”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Voss herad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Voss”
- Norwegian: “Voss”
- Norwegian: “Vossavangen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Voss”
- Persian: “ووس”
- Polish: “Voss”
- Portuguese: “Voss”
- Romanian: “Voss (comună)”
- Romanian: “Voss”
- Russian: “Восс”
- Slovenian: “Voss”
- South Azerbaijani: “ووس”
- Spanish: “Reino de Voss”
- Spanish: “Voss”
- Swahili: “Voss”
- Swedish: “Voss kommun”
- Turkish: “Voss”
- Ukrainian: “Восс”
- Vietnamese: “Voss”
- Waray (Philippines): “Voss”
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