Leirvik - Transfer & Transportation Guides

Town in Western Norway, Norway

Leirvik is a town and the administrative centre of Stord municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The town lies along the southern coast of the large island of Stord, along the Hardangerfjorden. The town gained "town status" in 1997. The town includes the Eldøyane peninsula where the large Kværner Stord industrial area is located. Leirvik is the regional centre of the traditional district of Sunnhordland, and has many public services and offices such as the Sunnhordland District court and the Sunnhordland Museum, as well as many shops and restaurants. Stord Church and several schools such as Stord Upper Secondary School and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences are all located in the town. We also have a well established art gallery Galleri Günther . They focus on urban, contemporary and streetart. Gallery owner and artist: Aleksander Isdal Günther The 9.8-square-kilometre (2,400-acre) town has a population (2019) of 14,126 and a population density of 1,441 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,730/sq mi). The entire municipality has about 18,700 residents in it (2019), so Leirvik has about 75% of the total population of the municipality. Leirvik is also the largest urban area that is located in a municipality where Nynorsk is the preferred language form. .... Learn more at Wikipedia

Transportation in Leirvik

The town lies along the European route E39 highway, just east of the Stord Bridge which is part of the Triangle Link which connects a number of islands to the mainland via road bridges and an undersea tunnel. There is a ferry quay at Kåravika in the western part of the town which has regular ferry connections to the nearby islands of Halsnøya, Fjelbergøya, and Borgundøya which lie to the east in the Hardangerfjorden. A regular ferry connection to the nearby island of Huglo departs just north of Leirvik at the quay at Jektavik.

Name	Leirvik
Long Name	Leirvik, Hordaland, Norway
Region	Hordaland
Country	Norway
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