Brattvåg is a village in Ålesund Municipality in

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The village is located on the Norwegian mainland, along the west side of the Samfjorden. It is located about northwest of the villages of Vatne/ Eidsvik. The village has a population (2018) of 2,426 and a

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of . Brattvåg has three schools: one primary school (), a lower secondary school (), and an upper secondary school ().

Brattvåg Church Brattvåg Church ( no, Brattvåg kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Brattvåg. It is one of the two churches for the Brattvåg parish wh ...

is the main church for this area of the municipality. Brattvåg houses factories for both

Kongsberg Kongsberg () is a historical mining town and municipality in Buskerud, Viken county, Norway. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. Kongsberg has been a centre of silver mining, arms production ...

and

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. Kongsberg Deck Machinery Brattvåg is the world's largest manufacturer of

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es. The sports club

Brattvåg IL Brattvåg Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from the village of Brattvåg in the municipality of Ålesund in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It has sections for association football and Nordic skiing. The club was established in 1940. The m ...

is located in the village. The newspaper '' Nordre'' is published in Brattvåg. Prior to 2020, it was the

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of the old Haram Municipality.

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