Røyken
Røyken is a district and village and a former municipality in Buskerud, Norway. In 2020 Røyken was merged with the municipalities of Hurum and Asker to form the new Asker Municipality located in the newly formed Viken county.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 4,080 residents
- Description: former municipality in Buskerud, Norway
- Also known as: “Royken Kommune”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Røyken Church and Røyken Upper Secondary School.
Røyken Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Røyken Church is a church in the Asker municipality in Akershus county, Norway. Røyken Church serves Røyken parish in the Lier rural deanery of the Church of Norway.
Røyken Upper Secondary School
School
Photo: Bkv, Public domain.
Røyken Upper Secondary School is an upper secondary school situated in Asker, Akershus, Norway. The school was established in 1978, and the first Headmaster was Olav J.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hyggen and Lahell.
Hyggen
Village
Hyggen is a small village in Røyken in Asker municipality, Akershus county, Norway. Hyggen is situated 3½ km south of Røyken.
Lahell
Quarter
Photo: Peulle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lahell is a village in the municipality of Lier in Buskerud, Norway. Located in the south of the municipality of Lier, southwest of Spikkestad in Røyken, it is neighbouring to the urban area Drammen which bordering to Lier. Lahell is situated 5 km southwest of Røyken.
Reistad
Quarter
Reistad is a small village in Lier municipality in Buskerud, Norway. Its population in 1999 was 554, and since 2001 has considered a part of the urban area of Lierbyen. Reistad is situated 7 km northwest of Røyken.
Røyken
- Categories: former municipality of Norway and locality
- Location: Asker, Akershus, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.74679° or 59° 44′ 48″ northLongitude
10.39375° or 10° 23′ 38″ eastPopulation
4,080Elevation
147 metres (482 feet)Open location code
9FFGP9WV+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 71440634OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3141107Wikidata ID
Q488663
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Røyken” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Røyken”
- Arabic: “رويكن”
- Armenian: “Ռյոյկեն”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Røyken (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Røyken kommune”
- Asturian: “Røyken”
- Basque: “Røyken”
- Bavarian: “Røyken”
- Bishnupriya: “রায়কেন”
- Catalan: “Røyken”
- Cebuano: “Røyken (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Røyken”
- Chinese: “Røyken”
- Chinese: “略肯”
- Danish: “Røyken”
- Dutch: “Røyken”
- Esperanto: “Røyken”
- Finnish: “Røyken”
- French: “Røyken”
- German: “Røyken”
- Icelandic: “Røyken”
- Indonesian: “Roeyken”
- Indonesian: “Royken”
- Indonesian: “Røyken”
- Irish: “Røyken”
- Italian: “Royken”
- Italian: “Røyken”
- Javanese: “Røyken”
- Latin: “Røyken”
- Limburgan: “Røyken”
- Low German: “Kommun Røyken”
- Malay: “Røyken”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Røyken”
- Northern Sami: “Røyken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Røyken kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Røyken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Røyken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Røyken kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Røyken”
- Norwegian: “Røyken”
- Persian: “شهرداری روایکن”
- Polish: “Roeyken”
- Polish: “Royken”
- Polish: “Røyken”
- Portuguese: “Royken”
- Portuguese: “Røyken”
- Romanian: “Royken”
- Romanian: “Røyken”
- Russian: “Рёйкен”
- Slovenian: “Royken”
- Slovenian: “Røyken”
- Spanish: “Røyken”
- Swahili: “Røyken”
- Swedish: “Røyken kommun”
- Swedish: “Röyken”
- Swedish: “Røyken”
- Swedish: “Røykens kommun”
- Turkish: “Røyken”
- Vietnamese: “Røyken”
- Waray (Philippines): “Røyken”
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