Skien
Skien is a town/city in Skien Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is the administrative centre of the municipality. The town is located along the Skienselva river, about 8 kilometres to the northwest of the town of Porsgrunn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Bitjungle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 51,500 residents
- Description: town/city in Skien Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Skien (town)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skagerak Arena and Ibsenhuset.
Skagerak Arena
Stadium
Photo: Lasse Tollefsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Skagerak Arena is a football stadium located in Skien, Norway. It was formerly called Odd Stadion, and was built in 1923 as the home ground of Eliteserien club Odd.
Ibsenhuset
Theater building
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Ibsenhuset is a Norwegian cultural centre in the city of Skien, Telemark county. The building houses several facilities for concerts, theater performances, opera, exhibits, conferences, courses, meetings and other events.
Skien Church
Church
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Skien Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Skien Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Skien. It is the church for the Skien parish which is part of the Skien prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.
Skien
- Categories: administrative center, urban area in Norway, and locality
- Location: Skien, Telemark, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.2091° or 59° 12′ 33″ northLongitude
9.6075° or 9° 36′ 27″ eastPopulation
51,500Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)IATA airport code
SKEUnited Nations Location Code
NO SKEOpen location code
9FFF6J55+J2OpenStreetMap ID
node 31264139OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3139075Wikidata ID
Q12375138
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Western Panjabi—“Skien” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Шыен”
- Bishnupriya: “স্কিয়েন”
- Bulgarian: “Шиен”
- Cebuano: “Skien”
- Chinese: “希恩”
- Czech: “Skien”
- Danish: “Skien”
- Dutch: “Skien”
- Estonian: “Skien”
- Estonian: “Skieni vald”
- Finnish: “Skien”
- German: “Skien”
- Italian: “Skien”
- Japanese: “シーエン”
- Korean: “시엔”
- Lithuanian: “Šienas”
- Low German: “Kommun Skien”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skien”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skien”
- Norwegian: “Skien”
- Polish: “Skien”
- Portuguese: “Skien”
- Russian: “Шиен”
- Samogitian: “Šėins”
- Serbian: “Шијен”
- Slovenian: “Skien”
- Swedish: “Skien”
- Tajik: “Шиен”
- Ukrainian: “Шієн”
- Western Panjabi: “سکائن”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ibsenparken and Festiviteten.
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