Finnskogen

Finnskogen is a forest area of and situated in the counties of and respectively, so named because of immigration of Finnish people in the 17th century, the so-called Forest Finns.
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  • Type: Forest
  • Description: forest area of Norway
  • Also known as: Finnskog areas

Finnskogen

Latitude
60.5° or 60° 30′ north
Longitude
12.75° or 12° 45′ east
Elevation
513 metres (1,683 feet)
Open location code
9FGJGQ22+22
Geo­Names ID
2714923
Wiki­data ID
Q1418263
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Turkish—“Finnskogen” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: фінскі лес
  • Bulgarian: Финскоген
  • Cebuano: Finnskogen
  • Danish: Finnskogen
  • Dutch: Finnskogen
  • Dutch: Finskogen
  • Egyptian Arabic: فينسكوجين
  • Finnish: Suomalaismetsät
  • German: Finnskogen
  • Japanese: フィンスコーゲン
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Finnskoga
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Finnskogen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Finnskogene
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Finnskoga
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Finnskogen
  • Norwegian: Finnskogen
  • Spanish: Finnskogen
  • Swedish: Finnskogen
  • Turkish: Finnskogen

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