Asker

Asker, also called Asker proper, is a district and former municipality in , , located approximately 20km southwest of Oslo. From 2020 it is part of the larger administrative municipality Asker together with the traditional districts and Hurum; Asker constitutes the northern fourth and is part of the Greater Oslo Region.
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  • Type: Farm
  • Description: former municipality in Akershus, Norway (1837–2019)
  • Also known as: “Asker Municipality” and “Askergårdene”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Asker Railway Station and Skaugumsåsen.

Railway station
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Asker Station is a railway station located in downtown Asker, . Situated on the Drammen Line, 23.83 kilometers from , it also serves as the terminus of the Asker Line and the Spikkestad Line.

Peak
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is a mountain in Asker in the county of , in southeastern .

Sports venue
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is an indoor ice hockey arena located in Asker, . The capacity of the arena is 2,400 and was opened in 1969. It is the home arena of Frisk Tigers ice hockey team and the juniors of Frisk Asker.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Asker and Skaugum.

Town
Photo: Trarir, Public domain.
is a town.

Hamlet
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is an estate, manor house and the official residence of King Haakon VIII and his wife, Queen Mette-Marit. The estate is located in Asker, 19 km southwest of , by the foot of the mountain .

Suburb
is a suburb located in the municipality of Asker, . Located some 20 kilometers southwest of , has many different styles of residential areas, ranging from apartment complexes and semi-detached houses in the southern area of , to the villas of Skog.

Asker

Latitude
59.8388° or 59° 50′ 20″ north
Longitude
10.4355° or 10° 26′ 8″ east
Population
61,900
Elevation
119 metres (390 feet)
IATA airport code
XGU
United Nations Location Code
NO ASK
Open location code
9FFGRCQP+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10225952653
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­farm
Geo­Names ID
3162657
Wiki­data ID
Q56869
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Asker” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Asker”
  • Arabic: “أسكر”
  • Armenian: “Ասքեր”
  • Asturian: “Asker kommune”
  • Asturian: “Asker”
  • Asturian: “conceyu d’Asker (Noruega)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Asker”
  • Banjar: “Asker, Norwegia”
  • Basque: “Asker”
  • Bavarian: “Asker”
  • Belarusian: “Аскер”
  • Bishnupriya: “আসকের”
  • Bulgarian: “Аскер”
  • Catalan: “Asker”
  • Cebuano: “Asker”
  • Chinese: “Asker”
  • Chinese: “阿斯克尔”
  • Chinese: “阿斯克爾”
  • Czech: “Asker”
  • Danish: “Asker”
  • Dutch: “Asker”
  • Esperanto: “Asker”
  • Estonian: “Askeri vald”
  • Faroese: “Asker kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Asker”
  • French: “Asker”
  • Galician: “Asker”
  • Georgian: “ასკერი”
  • German: “Asker”
  • Hebrew: “אסקר (נורווגיה)”
  • Hebrew: “אסקר”
  • Hungarian: “Asker község”
  • Hungarian: “Asker”
  • Indonesian: “Asker, Norwegia”
  • Interlingua: “Asker”
  • Irish: “Asker”
  • Italian: “Asker”
  • Japanese: “アスケー”
  • Javanese: “Asker”
  • Kalaallisut: “Asker”
  • Kazakh: “Аскер”
  • Korean: “아스케르”
  • Latin: “Asker”
  • Limburgan: “Asker”
  • Lithuanian: “Askeris”
  • Low German: “Kommun Asker”
  • Malay: “Asker”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Asker”
  • Moksha: “Аскэр”
  • Northern Sami: “Asker”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Asker”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “gamle Asker kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asker”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “gamle Asker kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Asker”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Asker”
  • Ossetian: “Аскер”
  • Persian: “آسکر”
  • Polish: “Asker”
  • Portuguese: “Asker”
  • Pushto: “اسکير”
  • Romanian: “Asker”
  • Russian: “Аскер”
  • Scots: “Asker”
  • Silesian: “Asker”
  • Slovak: “Asker”
  • Slovenian: “Asker”
  • Spanish: “Asker”
  • Swahili: “Asker”
  • Swedish: “Asker”
  • Swedish: “Askers kommun”
  • Turkish: “Asker, Norveç”
  • Turkish: “Asker”
  • Ukrainian: “Аскер”
  • Urdu: “آسکر بلدیہ (1838ء–2020ء)”
  • Urdu: “آسکر بلدیہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Asker”
  • Volapük: “Asker”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Asker”
  • “Asker”

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