Horten
Horten is a city in Vestfold, Norway. Mostly a quick stopover for travellers crossing the Oslofjord by ferry between here and Moss…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ulflarsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: trolvag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 21,200 residents
- Description: municipality in Vestfold, Norway
- Also known as: “Horten Municipality”
- Neighbors: Holmestrand and Tønsberg
Places of Interest
Highlights include Preus Museum and Royal Norwegian Navy Museum.
Preus Museum
Museum
Preus Museum is the national museum for photography located in Horten, Norway. Preus Museum was founded in 1976 by Leif Preus and the members of the Preus family as a private museum.
Royal Norwegian Navy Museum
Museum
Photo: Ulflarsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Norwegian Navy Museum is a museum documenting the history of the Royal Norwegian Navy. It is located at the former main naval base of Karljohansvern in Horten.
Tordenskiold Oak
The Tordenskiold Oak in Kjølhalskogen in Horten, Norway is one of the oldest trees in Norway. The tree trunk is very hollow, so the tree is almost split in two.Horten
- Categories: municipality of Norway and locality
- Location: Vestfold, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.4157° or 59° 24′ 56″ northLongitude
10.4851° or 10° 29′ 6″ eastPopulation
21,200Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO HOROpen location code
9FFGCF8P+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 31264095OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Horten” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Horten”
- Arabic: “هورتن”
- Arabic: “هورتِن”
- Armenian: “Հորթեն”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Horten (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Horten kommune”
- Asturian: “Horten”
- Azerbaijani: “Horten”
- Basque: “Horten”
- Belarusian: “Хортан”
- Bengali: “হর্টেন”
- Bishnupriya: “হোর্টেন”
- Bulgarian: “Хутен”
- Catalan: “Horten”
- Chinese: “Horten”
- Chinese: “霍尔滕”
- Chinese: “霍滕”
- Czech: “Horten”
- Danish: “Horten Kommune”
- Danish: “Horten”
- Dutch: “Horten”
- Esperanto: “Horten”
- Finnish: “Borre”
- Finnish: “Horten”
- French: “Horten”
- German: “Horten”
- Greek: “Χόρτεν”
- Hebrew: “הורטן”
- Hungarian: “Horten”
- Icelandic: “Horten”
- Inari Sami: “Horten”
- Irish: “Horten”
- Italian: “Horten”
- Japanese: “ホーテン”
- Japanese: “ホルテン”
- Kalaallisut: “Horten”
- Korean: “호르텐”
- Latin: “Horten”
- Limburgan: “Horten”
- Lithuanian: “Hortenas”
- Low German: “Kommun Horten”
- Macedonian: “Хортен”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Horten”
- Moksha: “Гортэн”
- Northern Sami: “Horten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Horten kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Horten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Horten kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Horten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Horten”
- Norwegian: “Horten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Horten”
- Persian: “هورتن”
- Polish: “Horten”
- Portuguese: “Horten”
- Romanian: “Comuna Horten”
- Romanian: “Horten”
- Russian: “Хортен”
- Rusyn: “Гортен”
- Serbian: “Horten”
- Serbian: “Хортен”
- Slovenian: “Horten”
- Spanish: “Horten”
- Swahili: “Horten”
- Swedish: “Horten kommun”
- Swedish: “Horten”
- Swedish: “Hortens kommun”
- Tatar: “Һортен”
- Turkish: “Horten”
- Ukrainian: “Гортен”
- Vietnamese: “Horten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Horten”
- Welsh: “Horten”
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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 “Horten”. Photo: trolvag, CC BY-SA 3.0.