Skallestad is a village and statistical area (grunnkrets) in Nøtterøy

Nøtterøy

Nøtterøy is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Borgheim.The parish of Nøtterø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838...

 municipality, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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The statistical area Skallestad, which also can include the peripheral parts of the village as well as the surrounding countryside, has a population of 532.

The village Skallestad is located between Hårkollen

Hårkollen

Hårkollen is a village and statistical area in Nøtterøy municipality, Norway.The statistical area Hårkollen, which also can include the peripheral parts of the village as well as the surrounding countryside, has a population of 804....

 in the south and Duken

Duken

Duken is a village and statistical area in Nøtterøy municipality, Norway.The statistical area Duken, which also can include the peripheral parts of the village as well as the surrounding countryside, has a population of 699....

 in the north. It is considered a part of the urban settlement Tønsberg

Tønsberg

is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around north-east of Sandefjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tønsberg....

, which covers the greater Tønsberg city area as well as the northern and eastern part of Nøtterøy. The urban settlement Tønsberg has a population of 45,447, of which 15,818 people live within Nøtterøy.