Modum
Modum is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Vikersund. The municipality of Modum was established on 1 January 1838.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Norway with 12,900 residents
- Description: municipality in Buskerud, Norway
- Also known as: “3047” and “Modum Municipality”
- Neighbors: Drammen
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vikersund Station and Heggen kyrkje.
Vikersund Station
Railway station
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Vikersund Station is a railway station located at the village of Vikersund in Modum, Norway. At Vikersund there is a junction with the Randsfjorden Line on which Vy Tog operates some express trains between Bergen and Oslo.
Heggen kyrkje
Church
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Heggen kyrkje is a church, which is situated 3½ km south of Modum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vikersund and Sysle.
Vikersund
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Vikersund is a town of 3,232 inhabitants in the municipality capital of Modum, in the county of Buskerud, Norway.
Sysle
Village
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Sysle is a village in the municipality of Modum, Buskerud county, Norway. Its population is 227. Sysle is principally a residential area situated about six km northwest of Vikersund. Sysle is situated 5 km west of Modum.
Geithus
Village
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Geithus is a village in Modum municipality of Buskerud, Norway. It is situated between the villages of Åmot and Vikersund. Geithus is located where the southwestern arm of Tyrifjorden ends and drains into Drammenselva. Geithus is situated 5 km southwest of Modum.
Modum
- Location: Buskerud, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Modum” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Modum”
- Arabic: “مودوم”
- Armenian: “Մուդում”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Modum (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Modum kommune”
- Asturian: “Modum”
- Basque: “Modum”
- Bavarian: “Modum”
- Bishnupriya: “মোডুম”
- Catalan: “Modum”
- Cebuano: “Modum (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Modum”
- Chinese: “Modum”
- Chinese: “莫迪姆”
- Danish: “Modum Kommune”
- Danish: “Modum”
- Dutch: “Modum”
- Esperanto: “Modum”
- Estonian: “Modumi vald”
- Finnish: “Modum”
- French: “Modum”
- German: “Gemeinde Modum”
- German: “Modum”
- Icelandic: “Modum”
- Irish: “Modum”
- Italian: “Modum”
- Italian: “Simostranda”
- Japanese: “ブスケルー県”
- Japanese: “モードゥム”
- Javanese: “Modum”
- Korean: “모둠”
- Latin: “Modum”
- Limburgan: “Modum”
- Lithuanian: “Modumas”
- Low German: “Kommun Modum”
- Malay: “Modum”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Modum”
- Northern Sami: “Modum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Modum kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Modum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Modum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Modum kommune”
- Norwegian: “Modum”
- Persian: “مودوم”
- Polish: “Modum”
- Portuguese: “Modum”
- Romanian: “Comuna Modum”
- Romanian: “Modum”
- Russian: “Мудум”
- Slovenian: “Modum”
- Spanish: “Modum”
- Swahili: “Modum”
- Swedish: “Modum kommun”
- Swedish: “Modums kommun”
- Turkish: “Modum”
- Ukrainian: “Modum”
- Ukrainian: “Модум”
- Vietnamese: “Modum”
- Waray (Philippines): “Modum”
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