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Ålesund
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Ålesund (ô`ləsn), city (1995 pop. 36,720), Møre og Romsdal county, W Norway, on 3 islands in the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Storfjord. It is a major commercial and fishing port. Products include clothing, processed fish, and dairy goods. Of note is a nearby stone church (early 13th cent.). The name was formerly spelled Aalesund.


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We took a bus through the hills, past an occasional sod-roofed dwelling and fields carpeted with dandelions, and ended up at the art nouveau city of Alesund, built in the 1930s.
Alesund is a busy little port with a strong nautical tradition on the west coast of Norway above Bergen.
The Norwegian researchers studied 2,161 children born in the cities of Trondheim and Alesund from 1979 to 1981.
 
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