Åsgårdstrand
Sign in to saveÅsgårdstrand (historically spelled Aasgaardstrand) is a small port town in both Horten and Tønsberg municipalities in Vestfold county, Norway. The town is located along the shore of the Ytre Oslofjord, about south of the town of Horten, about to the north of the town of Tønsberg, and about south of the capital city of Oslo. The villages of Borre and Skoppum both lie a short distance northwest of Åsgårdstrand.
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Vinony's link graph records 91 inbound references to Åsgårdstrand, and connects out to Horten Municipality, tincture and Tønsberg.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
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- View of the town in 2012
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- Norway
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- Eastern Norway
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- Vestfold
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- Jarlsberg
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- Municipality
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- Horten MunicipalityTønsberg Municipality
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Åsgårdstrand (historically spelled Aasgaardstrand) is a small port town in both Horten and Tønsberg municipalities in Vestfold county, Norway. The town is located along the shore of the Ytre Oslofjord, about south of the town of Horten, about to the north of the town of Tønsberg, and about south of the capital city of Oslo. The villages of Borre and Skoppum both lie a short distance northwest of Åsgårdstrand.
thumb|left|Landeveien, Åsgårdstrand painted by Hans Heyerdahl (1890) The town has a population (2023) of 2959 and a population density of . Most of the town lies within Horten Municipality, but a area of the town with 56 residents crosses over into the neighboring Tønsberg Municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Åsgårdstrand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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