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Norwegian National Road 5

road in Norway

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ6396378 ↗
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Norwegian National Road 5 (Norwegian: Riksvei 5, Rv5) is a national road in Vestland county, Norway. It runs between the town of Florø in Kinn Municipality to just south of Lærdalsøyri in Lærdal Municipality.

Starting where the European route E16 highway enters the Lærdal Tunnel, approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Lærdalsøyri, the road goes northwest to Sogndalsfjøra and Fjærland and from there north to Skei and on to the sea where it ends at the town of Florø.

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Text was copied from Riksvei 5 at the Norwegian Wikipedia, which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

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“Norwegian National Road 5” enters the record as road in Norway. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Norwegian, National and Road can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6396378.

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This entry incorporates text from “Norwegian National Road 5” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.