Mjøsa
Mjøsa is Norway's largest lake, as well as one of the deepest lakes in Norway and in Europe. It´s the fourth deepest lake in Norway. It is located in the southern part of Norway, about 100 km north of Oslo.
Articles in Norway ( 4,273 )
4,273 Articles of interest in Norway
Click on them to get its location and coordinatesKirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen
Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen (Norwegian: Kirkenes lufthavn, Høybuktmoen; IATA: KKN, ICAO: ENKR) is an international airport located at Høybuktmoen, 15 kilometers (9 mi) west of the town of Kirkenes, in the municipality of Sør-Varanger, Finnmark cou…
Grini concentration camp
Grini prison camp (Norwegian: Grini fangeleir, German: Polizeihäftlingslager Grini) was a Nazi concentration camp in Bærum, Norway, which operated between 1941 and May 1945. In the present time Ila Detention and Security Prison is located here.
Geilo
Geilo is a centre in the municipality of Hol in Norway, in the valley of Hallingdal, with around 2300 inhabitants. The Bergen Line facilitated Geilo's development as the first skiing resort in the country, and it is still one of the largest.
…Fram Museum
The Fram Museum (Norwegian: Frammuseet) is a museum telling the story of Norwegian polar exploration.
Alta Airport
Alta Airport (Norwegian: Alta lufthavn; IATA: ALF, ICAO: ENAT) is an international airport serving Alta, a town and municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The airport is located at Elvebakken, 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) northeast of Bossekop in Alta. I…
Aker Stadion
Aker Stadion, formerly known as Molde Stadion, is a football stadium located at Reknes in Molde, Norway, and is the home of Norwegian Premier League club Molde.
Å, Moskenes
Å (Norwegian pronunciation: [oː], from å meaning "stream") is a village in the municipality of Moskenes in Nordland county, Norway. It is located towards the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago. It is connected to the rest of the archipelago by …
Tomra
Tomra Systems ASA is a Norwegian multinational corporation which creates sensor-based solutions for optimal resource productivity. The company’s products and services fall within two main business areas: Collection Solutions (including the business …
Supreme Court of Norway
The Supreme Court of Norway (Norwegian Bokmål: (Norges) Høyesterett; Norwegian Nynorsk: (Noregs) Høgsterett; lit. ‘Highest Court’) was established in 1815 on the basis article 88 in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway, which prescribes an inde…
National Library of Norway
The National Library of Norway (Norwegian: Nasjonalbiblioteket) was established in 1989. Its principal task is "to preserve the past for the future". The library is located both in Oslo and in Mo i Rana.
List of glaciers in Norway
These are the largest glaciers on mainland Norway. However, the 18 largest glaciers in the Kingdom of Norway are on Svalbard, including the second largest glacier in Europe, Austfonna on Nordaustlandet. In total, Norway has around 1,600 glaciers - 9…
Hålogaland
Hålogaland was the northernmost of the Norwegian provinces in the medieval Norse sagas. In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Hålogaland was a kingdom extending between the Namdalen valley in Nord-Trøndelag county and the Lyngen fjord in …
Hardangerjøkulen
Hardangerjøkulen is the sixth largest glacier in mainland Norway. It is located in the municipalities of Eidfjord and Ulvik in Hordaland county.
Vikersund
Vikersund is a town of 2,748 (in 2009) inhabitants in the municipality capital of Modum, in the county of Buskerud, Norway.
Vigra
Vigra is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county on the west coast of Norway. It is located in the present-day Giske Municipality. The former municipality was made up of the island of Vigra along with many smaller islets surrounding it. The …
Ulriken
Ulriken is the highest of the Seven Mountains (de syv fjell) that surround Bergen, Norway.
Tune ship
The Tune ship (Tuneskipet) is a Viking era ship exhibited in the Viking Ship Museum in Bygdøy, Oslo.
Stad (peninsula)
Stad or Stadlandet is a peninsula in Selje Municipality in the northwestern part of Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway. The peninsula is considered the dividing point between the Norwegian Sea to the north and the North Sea to the south. The name is …
Rondane National Park
Rondane National Park (Norwegian: Rondane nasjonalpark) is the oldest national park in Norway, established on 21 December 1962. The park contains ten peaks above 2,000 metres (6,560 ft), with the highest being Rondeslottet at an altitude of 2,178 m …
Dovrefjell
Dovrefjell is a mountain range in central Norway that forms a natural barrier between Eastern Norway and Trøndelag, the area around Trondheim. As a result, it has been heavily trafficked during and probably preceding historical times.
Bjørvika
Bjørvika is a neighborhood in the Sentrum borough of Oslo, Norway. The area is an inlet in the inner Oslofjord, situated between Gamlebyen and Akersness. It serves as an outlet for the river Akerselva. Since the 2000s, it has been undergoing urban r…
Besseggen
Besseggen, or Besseggi, is a mountain ridge in Vågå kommune in Oppland county.
Bardufoss Airport
Bardufoss Airport (Norwegian: Bardufoss lufthavn; IATA: BDU, ICAO: ENDU) is a primary airport situated at Bardufoss in Målselv, Norway. The airport, which is the civilian sector of the Royal Norwegian Air Force's (RNoAF) Bardufoss Air Station, is op…
Austra
Austra is an island on the border between Nord-Trøndelag and Nordland counties in Norway. The 88-square-kilometre (34 sq mi) island is shared between the municipalities of Bindal, Leka and Nærøy.
Viking Stadion
Viking Stadion is a football stadium, built at Jåttåvågen, in Stavanger, Norway. It was inaugurated in May 2004 and cost 160 million NOK to build (€ 20 million). 50 million NOK, plus the lot it was built on, was a gift from the municipality. It repl…
Otra
The Otra river is the largest river in the Sørlandet region of Norway.
Oslo School of Architecture and Design
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, AHO, is one of Norway's three architectural schools.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway)
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norwegian (Bokmål): Det kongelige Utenriksdepartement; Norwegian (Nynorsk): Det kongelege Utanriksdepartement) is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway. It was established on June 7, 1905, the…
Lofotr Viking Museum
The Lofotr Viking Museum (Lofotr Vikingmuseum) is a historical museum based on a reconstruction and archaeological excavation of a Viking chieftain's village on the island of Vestvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.
Kvitøya
Kvitøya (English: "White Island") is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of 682 square kilometres (263 sq mi). It is located at (80°09′05″N32°35′37″E), making it the easternmost part of the Kingdom of Norway.
…Hornindalsvatnet
Hornindalsvatnet is Norway's and Europe's deepest lake, officially measured to a depth of 514 metres (1,686 ft). Its surface is 53 metres (174 ft) above sea level, which means that its bottom is 461 metres (1,512 ft) below sea level. The village of …
Haugesund Airport, Karmøy
Haugesund Airport, Karmøy (Norwegian: Haugesund lufthavn, Karmøy; IATA: HAU, ICAO: ENHD) is an international airport serving Haugesund, Norway. It is located on the peninsula of Hauganes in Karmøy. The airport features a 2,120-meter (6,960 ft) runwa…
Drøbak
Drøbak is a town and the centre of the municipality of Frogn, in Akershus county, Norway. The city is located along the Oslofjord, and has 13,358 inhabitants.
Cape Nordkinn
Cape Nordkinn (Norwegian: Kinnarodden, also called Nordkyn) at (71°8′2″N27°39′0″E) is the northernmost point on the Nordkinn Peninsula in Finnmark county, Norway. It is notable for being the northernmost point of mainland Norway, and by extension t…
Bodø Main Air Station
Bodø Main Air Station (IATA: BOO, ICAO: ENBO; Norwegian: Bodø hovedflystasjon) is a military airbase of the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) located at Bodø, Norway. It is home to the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons of the 331 and 332 Squadr…