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Hamar

Hamar is a city in Innlandet, , facing the impressive Mjøsa lake. Hamar is the hub in the Oppland-Hedmark area and is surrounded by the fertile Hedmark flatlands.
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  • Type: City with 30,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in Innlandet, Norway
  • Also known as: “3403” and “Hamar Municipality”
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Briskeby Stadion and Vikingskipet.

Stadium
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, previously known as Briskeby gressbane, is an all-seater football stadium located at in the town of , . It is home to the Norwegian First Division side Hamarkameratene and is owned by Hamar Municipality.

Sports venue
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, officially known as Hamar Olympic Hall, is an indoor multi-use sport and event venue in , . It was built as the speed skating rink for the 1994 Winter Olympics, and has since also hosted events and tournaments in ice speedway, motorcycle speedway, rally, association football, bandy, ice sledge speed racing, flying disc and track cycling.

Church
Photo: Jensens, Public domain.
is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Hamar within the Church of Norway. The cathedral is located in the town of which is in Hamar Municipality in county, .

Hamar

Latitude
60.7947° or 60° 47′ 41″ north
Longitude
11.0681° or 11° 4′ 5″ east
Population
30,500
Elevation
133 metres (436 feet)
Open location code
9FGHQ3V9+V6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29880578
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6453351
Wiki­data ID
Q104400
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Hamar” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Hamar”
  • Arabic: “هامار”
  • Arabic: “هامر”
  • Aragonese: “Hamar”
  • Armenian: “Համար”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Hamar (Noruega)”
  • Asturian: “Hamar kommune”
  • Asturian: “Hamar”
  • Banjar: “Hamar”
  • Bashkir: “Хамар”
  • Basque: “Hamar”
  • Belarusian: “Гамар”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Хамар”
  • Belarusian: “Хамар”
  • Bishnupriya: “হামার”
  • Bulgarian: “Хамар”
  • Catalan: “Hamar”
  • Cebuano: “Hamar”
  • Chinese: “Hamar”
  • Chinese: “哈馬爾”
  • Chinese: “哈马尔”
  • Croatian: “Hamar”
  • Czech: “Hamar”
  • Danish: “Hamar Kommune”
  • Danish: “Hamar”
  • Dutch: “Hamar”
  • Erzya: “Хамар”
  • Esperanto: “Hamar”
  • Estonian: “Hamari vald”
  • Finnish: “Hamar”
  • French: “Hamar”
  • Galician: “Hamar”
  • Georgian: “ჰამარის მუნიციპალიტეტი”
  • German: “Gemeinde Hamar”
  • German: “Hamar”
  • Greek: “Χάμαρ”
  • Hebrew: “האמאר”
  • Hungarian: “Hamar”
  • Indonesian: “Hamar”
  • Irish: “Bardas Hamar”
  • Italian: “comune di Hamar”
  • Italian: “Hamar”
  • Japanese: “ハーマル”
  • Japanese: “ハーマル市”
  • Javanese: “Hamar”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hamar”
  • Korean: “하마르”
  • Latin: “Hammaria”
  • Limburgan: “Hamar”
  • Lithuanian: “Hamaras”
  • Low German: “Kommun Hamar”
  • Malay: “Hamar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hamar”
  • Moksha: “Гамар”
  • Northern Sami: “Hamar”
  • Northern Sami: “Hámar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamar kommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hammer”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hamar kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Hamar”
  • Norwegian: “Hamar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hamar”
  • Ossetian: “Хамар”
  • Persian: “هامار”
  • Polish: “Hamar”
  • Portuguese: “Hamar”
  • Pushto: “هامار”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Hamar”
  • Romanian: “Hamar”
  • Russian: “Хамар”
  • Samogitian: “Hamars”
  • Scots: “Hamar”
  • Serbian: “Hamar”
  • Serbian: “Хамар”
  • Silesian: “Hamar”
  • Slovak: “Hamar”
  • Slovenian: “Hamar”
  • Somali: “Hamar”
  • Spanish: “Hamar”
  • Swahili: “Hamar”
  • Swedish: “Hamar kommun”
  • Swedish: “Hamars kommun”
  • Tumbuka: “Hamar”
  • Turkish: “Hamar”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамар”
  • Ukrainian: “Хамар”
  • Urdu: “بلدیہ ہامار”
  • Urdu: “ہامار”
  • Veps: “Hamar”
  • Vietnamese: “Hamar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hamar”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Hamar”
  • Western Frisian: “Hamar”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہمار”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈马尔”
  • “Hamars”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hamar”. Photo: Jensens, CC BY-SA 3.0.