Buskerud
Buskerud is a fylke in Norway, located west and north west of Oslo. Buskerud covers the area from the Drammensfjorden in the south, covering parts of Hardangervidda in the west, to Valdres in the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Drammen and Kongsberg.
Drammen
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Drammen is a city in Viken, previously Buskerud, 40 km southwest of Oslo. Drammen is where the Drammen river runs into the Drammensfjord, an arm of the Oslofjord.
Kongsberg
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Kongsberg is a town in Buskerud. It is an old mining community that developed around the rich silver mines from the 1600s. Today the town is a high-tech centre in Norway and the mines are now only a great sight for visitors.
Hemsedal
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Hemsedal is a valley and small town in Norway with about 2000 inhabitants, in the middle of South Norway, right between Oslo and Bergen, it is the northern branch of the great Hallingdal valley.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Hallingdal and Vikersund.
Hallingdal
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Hallingdal is a valley and district in Norway's Buskerud county, west and northwest of Oslo. The valley is home to Norway's most popular ski resorts and is the main entrance to key hiking areas.
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.
Ringerike
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Ringerike is a district in Buskerud in the central lowlands of Eastern Norway. It's a popular tourist destination for day trips with Hadeland Glassverk as the biggest attraction.
Haugastøl
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Haugastøl is a village on the mountain plateau of Hardangervidda between the western and eastern part of Norway. Many people from Bergen have cabins here, and it is a popular spot for hiking in the summer and skiing in the winter.
Buskerud
- Type: county of Norway with 253,000 residents
- Description: Norwegian county
- Also known as: “Buskerud county” and “Buskerud Fylke”
- Neighbors: Hordaland, Oppland, Oslo region, Sogn og Fjordane, Telemark, and Vestfold
- Category: former county of Norway
- Location: East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Buskerud” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Buskerud”
- Albanian: “Buskerud”
- Arabic: “بوسكرود (النرويج)”
- Arabic: “بوسكرود”
- Aragonese: “Buskerud”
- Armenian: “Բուսկերուդ”
- Armenian: “Բուսքերուդ”
- Asturian: “Buskerud”
- Azerbaijani: “Buskerud”
- Basque: “Buskerud”
- Bavarian: “Buskerud”
- Belarusian: “Бускеруд”
- Bengali: “বুস্কেরুদ”
- Bishnupriya: “বাসকেরুড”
- Bosnian: “Buskerud”
- Breton: “Buskerud”
- Bulgarian: “Бюскерю”
- Catalan: “Buskerud”
- Cebuano: “Buskerud fylke”
- Chinese: “Buskerud”
- Chinese: “布斯克吕郡”
- Chinese: “布斯克魯”
- Chinese: “布斯克魯郡”
- Cornish: “Buskerud”
- Croatian: “Buskerud”
- Czech: “Buskerud”
- Danish: “Buskerud”
- Dutch: “Buskerud”
- Esperanto: “Buskerud”
- Estonian: “Buskerud”
- Estonian: “Buskerudi maakond”
- Finnish: “Buskerud”
- Finnish: “Buskerudin lääni”
- French: “Buskerud”
- French: “Comté de Buskerud”
- Georgian: “ბუსკერუდი”
- German: “Buskerud”
- Greek: “Μπούσκερουντ”
- Gujarati: “બુસકેરુડ”
- Hebrew: “בוסקרוד”
- Hindi: “बस्केरूद”
- Hungarian: “Buskerud megye”
- Icelandic: “Buskerud”
- Indonesian: “Buskerud”
- Italian: “Buskerud”
- Japanese: “ブスケルー県”
- Kannada: “ಬಸ್ಕ್ರೋಡ್”
- Korean: “부스케루주”
- Korean: “부스케르 주”
- Latin: “Buskerudia”
- Latvian: “Buskeruda”
- Limburgan: “Buskerud”
- Lithuanian: “Biuskeriudas”
- Low German: “Amt Buskerud”
- Macedonian: “Бускеруд”
- Malay: “Buskerud”
- Marathi: “बस्केरुड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Buskerud”
- Nauru: “Buskerud”
- Northern Sami: “Buskeruda fylka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buskerud fylke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buskerud”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buskerud fylke”
- Norwegian: “Buskerud”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Buskerud”
- Ossetian: “Бускеруд”
- Persian: “بوسکرود”
- Polish: “Buskerud”
- Portuguese: “Buskerud”
- Pushto: “بوسکروډ”
- Romanian: “Buskerud”
- Russian: “Бускеруд”
- Samogitian: “Bioskeriuds”
- Scots: “Buskerud”
- Serbian: “Бускеруд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Buskerud”
- Sinhala: “බස්කෙරුඩ්”
- Slovak: “Buskerud”
- Slovenian: “Buskerud”
- Somali: “Buskerud”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوسکرود”
- Spanish: “Buskerud”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Buskerud”
- Swahili: “Buskerud”
- Swedish: “Buskerud fylke”
- Swedish: “Buskerud”
- Tamil: “புஸ்கிருத்”
- Telugu: “బుస్కెరుడ్”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลบึสเกอรือ”
- Turkish: “Buskerud”
- Ukrainian: “Бускеру”
- Ukrainian: “Бускеруд”
- Ukrainian: “Бускерюд”
- Ukrainian: “Бюскерю”
- Urdu: “بوسکرود”
- Vietnamese: “Buskerud”
- Vlaams: “Buskerud”
- Waray (Philippines): “Buskerud”
- Western Frisian: “Buskerud”
- Western Panjabi: “بسکرڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “布斯克吕”
- Wu Chinese: “布斯克吕郡”
- Yue Chinese: “布斯克魯”
- “Bioskeriuds”
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