Voss

Voss is a municipality in the inner part of , between the great fjords of Sogn and . Voss is known to be the adventure capital of Norway.
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  • Type: municipality of Norway with 13,900 residents
  • Description: municipality in Vestland, Norway
  • Also known as: “4621”, “conceyu de Voss (Noruega)”, “Kommunen Voss”, “Voss kommune”, “Voss Municipality”, “Vossin kunta”, and “ווֹס”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Voss Station and Ole Bull Academy.

Railway station
Photo: Aresenikk, Public domain.
is a railway station on the Bergen Line located in the village of in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, . It sits just off the European route E16 highway on the northwestern shore of the lake .

University
The 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.

Church
Photo: BjarteSorensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Municipality in Vestland county, . It is located in the village of . It is the church for the parish which is part of the Hardanger og prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vossevangen.

Town
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Vossavangen or is the administrative centre of Voss Municipality in Vestland county, . The village lies on the northeastern shore of the lake in the central part of the municipality, about 100 kilometres east of the city of Bergen.

Voss

Latitude
60.6278° or 60° 37′ 40″ north
Longitude
6.4183° or 6° 25′ 6″ east
Population
13,900
Elevation
59 metres (194 feet)
Open location code
9FG8JCH9+48
Geo­Names ID
3131325
Wiki­data ID
Q109031
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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: “Voss”
  • Basque: “Voss”
  • Belarusian: “Вос”
  • Bishnupriya: “ভোস”
  • Bulgarian: “Вос”
  • Catalan: “Voss”
  • Cebuano: “Voss (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Voss”
  • Chinese: “沃斯”
  • Czech: “Voss”
  • Danish: “Voss Kommune”
  • Danish: “Voss”
  • Dutch: “Voss”
  • Esperanto: “Voss”
  • Estonian: “Vossi vald”
  • Finnish: “Voss”
  • French: “Voss”
  • German: “Voss”
  • Hebrew: “ווס”
  • 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”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Voss herad”
  • Norwegian: “Voss”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Voss”
  • Persian: “ووس”
  • Polish: “Voss”
  • Portuguese: “Voss”
  • Romanian: “Voss (comună)”
  • Romanian: “Voss”
  • Russian: “Восс”
  • Slovenian: “Voss”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ووس”
  • Spanish: “Voss”
  • Swahili: “Voss”
  • Swedish: “Voss kommun”
  • Turkish: “Voss”
  • Ukrainian: “Восс”
  • Urdu: “ووس بلدیہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Voss”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Voss”

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