Oppstryn is a village in
Stryn Municipality in
Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located on the southern shore of the large lake
Oppstrynsvatnet
Oppstrynsvatn (also known as ''Oppstrynsvatnet'', ''Strynevatnet'', or ''Strynevatn'') is a lake in the municipality of Stryn in Vestland county, Norway. It is located about east of the village of Stryn (the administrative centre of the munici ...
. It is located about from the village of
Ospeli and about south of the village of
Flo (across the lake).
Norwegian National Road 15
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runs through the village on its way to the
village of Stryn.
Oppstryn Church
Oppstryn Church ( no, Oppstryn kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Stryn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Oppstryn, on the shore of the lake Oppstrynsvatnet. It is the church for the Op ...
is located in this village.
The mountain
Skåla lies just southwest of the village, inside
Jostedalsbreen National Park
Jostedalsbreen National Park ( no, Jostedalsbreen nasjonalpark) is a national park in Norway that encompasses the largest glacier on the European mainland, Jostedalsbreen. The park was established by royal decree on 25 October 1991, and then in ...
.
References
Villages in Vestland
Stryn
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