Porsgrunn
Porsgrunn is a town and the administrative centre of Porsgrunn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The town is located at the mouth of the Porsgrunn river where it joins the Frierfjorden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Porsgrunn Station
Railway station
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Porsgrunn Station is a railway station serving Porsgrunn, Norway. 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.
Vestre Porsgrunn Church
Church
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Vestre Porsgrunn Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsgrunn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Porsgrunn.
Porsgrunn Upper Secondary School
School
Porsgrunn videregående skole is an upper secondary school located in the town of Porsgrunn, in the county Telemark, in Norway. 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.
Skien
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Skien is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the Norsjø area and Bø.
Porsgrunn
- Categories: administrative center, city, and urban area in Norway
- Location: Porsgrunn, Telemark, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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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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