Ogna is a village in

Hå Hå is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is the southernmost municipality in the traditional district of Jæren. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Varhaug. Other villages in Hå include Brusand, Hæen, ...

municipality in

Rogaland Rogaland () is a Counties of Norway, county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Vestfold og Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. In 2020, it had a population of 47 ...

county,

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. The village is located immediately north of the village of

Sirevåg Sirevåg is a village in Hå municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located in the southeastern part of the municipality, about northwest of the village of Hellvik in neighboring Eigersund municipality. The village of Ogna si ...

on the shores of the Ognaelva river. The village was the

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of the historic municipality of

Ogna Ogna is a village in Hå municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located immediately north of the village of Sirevåg on the shores of the Ognaelva river. The village was the administrative centre of the historic municipality o ...

. The village is the site of

Ogna Station Ogna Station ( no, Ogna stasjon) is a railway station located at Ogna in Hå, Norway on the Sørland Line. The station is served by the Jæren Commuter Rail between Stavanger and Egersund Egersund is a town in Eigersund municipality in Rogaland ...

, a railway station along the

Sørlandet Line The Sørlandet Line ( no, Sørlandsbanen) is a railway line between Drammen (though this is connected to Oslo by means of the Drammen Line) via Kristiansand to Stavanger. The line is long between Oslo and Stavanger. History The railway was cons ...

. The village has a population (2019) of 364 and a

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of . Ogna is the site of the centuries-old

Ogna Church Ogna Church ( no, Ogna kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Hå Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ogna. It is the church for the Ogna parish which is part of the Jæren prosti (deanery) in ...

. The little church, which dates back to the Middle Ages, was restored and added to after a fire in 1991. It is often open in the summer for visitors. Ogna also has beautiful sand beaches, and salmon fishing is very popular in the nearby river.

Norwegian County Road 44 County Road 44 ( no, Fylkesvei 44) is a county road which runs from the town of Flekkefjord in Vest-Agder county to the city of Stavanger in Rogaland county. The section of the road between Søyland and Ogna in the municipality of Hå has, tog ...

, which also forms the tourist route known as the North Sea Road, passes through the village.

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Villages in Rogaland Hå {{Rogaland-geo-stub