Porsgrunn

Porsgrunn is a town and the administrative centre of Porsgrunn Municipality in county, . The town is located at the mouth of the Porsgrunn river where it joins the Frierfjorden.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Locality with 34,400 residents
  • Description: town in Porsgrunn Municipality, Norway
  • Historically known as: “Porsgrund”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Porsgrunn Station and Vestre Porsgrunn Church.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving , . It serves regional trains on Vestfold Line and local trains on Bratsberg Line, all operated by Vy. The station building is located beside a bus terminal.

Church
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is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsgrunn Municipality in county, . It is located in the town of Porsgrunn.

School
Porsgrunn videregående skole is an upper secondary school located in the town of , in the county , in . The school is Telemark county's biggest school together with Skien videregående skole, and has a total of 1150 students and about 170 employees.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Skien.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a municipality in county, . It is located in the traditional district of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the area and Bø.

Porsgrunn

Latitude
59.14054° or 59° 8′ 26″ north
Longitude
9.6561° or 9° 39′ 22″ east
Population
34,400
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
XKP
United Nations Location Code
NO POR
Open location code
9FFF4MR4+6C
Geo­Names ID
3142657
Wiki­data ID
Q10637941
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Porsgrunn” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Porsgrunn”
  • Bishnupriya: “পোর্সগ্রুন”
  • Bulgarian: “Пошгрун”
  • Catalan: “Porsgrunn”
  • Cebuano: “Porsgrunn (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Porsgrunn”
  • Chinese: “波什格伦”
  • Danish: “Porsgrund”
  • Danish: “Porsgrunn”
  • Dutch: “Porsgrunn”
  • Estonian: “Porsgrunni vald”
  • German: “Porsgrunn”
  • Korean: “포르스그룬”
  • Lithuanian: “Pošgriūnas”
  • Low German: “Kommun Porsgrunn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Porsgrunn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Porsgrunn”
  • Russian: “Порсгрунн”
  • Russian: “Пушгрён”
  • Serbian: “Порсгрун”
  • Slovenian: “Porsgrunn”
  • Swedish: “Porsgrunn”
  • Swedish: “Porsgrunns kommun”
  • Ukrainian: “Порсгрунн”

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