Østfold
Østfold is a county in the southeastern corner of East Norway. It borders Akershus to the north and west and Sweden to the east. The name means east of the Oslofjord.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg.
Fredrikstad
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Fredrikstad is a city and municipality in Østfold county in Norway, home to around 85,000 people. Its old town is Northern Europe's best preserved fortified town.
Sarpsborg
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Sarpsborg is the 11th largest city in Norway. Downtown Sarpsborg is below 20 minutes from alpine skiing slopes and from the start of the 200 km-long archipelago from Sarpsborg to Gothenburg.
Moss
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Moss is a coastal town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Moss. The city of Moss was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 and City in 1720.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Halden and Askim.
Halden
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Halden, between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, Rakkestad to the north and Aremark to the east, as well as the Swedish municipalities Strömstad, Tanum and Dals-Ed respectively to the southwest, south and southeast.
Askim
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Askim is a municipality in the county of Østfold, Norway. Askim centre had 13,822 inhabitants in 2014. It lies next to the longest river in Norway, Glomma, and has always been a strategic point in wars due to its bridges across the river.
Aremark
Aremark is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fosby. Aremark was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. The new municipality of Øymark was separated from Aremark on 1 July 1903.
Hvaler
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Hvaler is a municipality in the county of Østfold, Norway. Consisting of a group of island and a population of 3,694. There are about 830 islands in total, most are uninhabited. The four main islands are Vesterøy, Spjærøy, Asmaløy and Kirkøy.
Marker
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Marker is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ørje. Marker was created as a new municipality on 1 January 1964 following the merger of the two former municipalities of Rødenes and Øymark.
Mysen
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Mysen is the administrative center of the municipality of Eidsberg in the county of Østfold in Norway. The town is named after the old farm of Mysen, since the town is built on its ground.
Østfold
- Type: county of Norway with 259,000 residents
- Description: Norwegian county
- Also known as: “Østfold county” and “Ostfold fylke”
- Neighbors: Oslo region
- Category: former county of Norway
- Location: East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Østfold” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Østfold”
- Albanian: “Østfold”
- Arabic: “أوستفولد”
- Aragonese: “Østfold”
- Armenian: “Էստֆոլդ”
- Armenian: “Օսթֆոլ”
- Asturian: “Østfold”
- Azerbaijani: “Östfold”
- Basque: “Østfold”
- Belarusian: “Эстфал”
- Belarusian: “Эстфол”
- Bengali: “ওস্টফোল্ড”
- Bishnupriya: “আসফোল্ড”
- Bosnian: “Østfold”
- Breton: “Østfold”
- Bulgarian: “Йостфол”
- Catalan: “Østfold”
- Cebuano: “Østfold fylke”
- Chinese: “Østfold”
- Chinese: “东福尔郡”
- Chinese: “東福爾”
- Cornish: “Østfold”
- Croatian: “Østfold”
- Czech: “Østfold”
- Danish: “Østfold Fylke”
- Danish: “Østfold”
- Dutch: “Østfold”
- Esperanto: “Østfold”
- Estonian: “Østfold”
- Estonian: “Østfoldi maakond”
- Finnish: “Østfoldin lääni”
- French: “Comté d’Østfold”
- French: “Østfold”
- Galician: “Østfold”
- Georgian: “ესტფოლდი”
- German: “Østfold”
- Greek: “Όστφολντ”
- Gujarati: “ઓસ્ટફોલ્ડ”
- Hebrew: “אסטפול”
- Hebrew: “אסטפולד”
- Hindi: “ओस्टफ़ोल्ड”
- Hungarian: “Østfold megye”
- Icelandic: “Austfold”
- Indonesian: “Østfold”
- Italian: “Østfold”
- Japanese: “エストフォル県”
- Japanese: “オストフォル”
- Kannada: “ಓಸ್ಟ್ಫೋಲ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “외스트폴주”
- Latin: “Austfoldia”
- Latin: “Foldia orientalis”
- Latvian: “Estfolla”
- Limburgan: “Østfold”
- Lithuanian: “Estfoldas”
- Low German: “Amt Østfold”
- Macedonian: “Естфол”
- Malay: “Ostfold”
- Marathi: “ओस्टफॉल्ड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Østfold”
- Nauru: “Østfold”
- Northern Sami: “Østfolda fylka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Østfold fylke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Østfold”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Østfold fylke”
- Norwegian: “Østfold”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Østfold”
- Ossetian: “Эстфолл”
- Persian: “اوستفولد”
- Polish: “Østfold”
- Portuguese: “Østfold”
- Pushto: “اوستفولد”
- Romanian: “Østfold”
- Russian: “Эстфолл”
- Samogitian: “Estfuolds”
- Scots: “Østfold”
- Serbian: “Естфолд”
- Sinhala: “ඔස්ට්ෆෝල්ඩ්”
- Slovak: “Østfold”
- Slovenian: “Østfold”
- Somali: “Østfold”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوستفولد”
- Spanish: “Østfold”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Østfold”
- Swahili: “Østfold”
- Swedish: “Østfold fylke”
- Swedish: “Østfold”
- Tamil: “ஒஸ்டபோல்டு”
- Telugu: “ఓస్ట్ఫోల్డ్”
- Thai: “แอสต์โฟลด์”
- Turkish: “Østfold”
- Ukrainian: “Естфол”
- Ukrainian: “Естфолл”
- Urdu: “اوستفول”
- Vietnamese: “Østfold”
- Vlaams: “Østfold”
- Waray (Philippines): “Østfold”
- Western Panjabi: “اوستھفیلڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “东福尔”
- Wu Chinese: “东福尔郡”
- Yue Chinese: “東福爾”
- “Estfuolds”
- “Østfold”
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