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”, “conceyu de Hamar (Noruega)”, “Hamar kommun”, “Hamar Municipality”, “Hammer”, and “Kommunen Hamar”
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Briskeby Stadion and Vikingskipet.

Stadium
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, previously known as Briskeby…

Sports venue
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, officially known as Hamar Olympic Hall…

Church
Photo: Jensens, Public domain.
is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Hamar within the Church of Norway.

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: “Hamar”
  • Banjar: “Hamar”
  • Bashkir: “Хамар”
  • Basque: “Hamar”
  • Belarusian: “Гамар”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Хамар”
  • Belarusian: “Хамар”
  • Bishnupriya: “হামার”
  • Bulgarian: “Хамар”
  • Catalan: “Hamar”
  • Cebuano: “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: “Hámar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hamar kommune”
  • 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: “Hamars kommun”
  • Tumbuka: “Hamar”
  • Turkish: “Hamar”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамар”
  • 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”

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