Horten

Horten is a city in , . Mostly a quick stopover for travellers crossing the Oslofjord by ferry between here and …
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  • Type: Town with 21,200 residents
  • Description: municipality in Vestfold, Norway
  • Also known as: “Borre”, “conceyu de Horten (Noruega)”, “Horten kommun”, “Horten Municipality”, “Kommunen Horten”, “هورتِن”, and “ホーテン”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Preus Museum and Royal Norwegian Navy Museum.

Museum
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is the national for photography located in Horten, . was founded in 1976 by Leif Preus and the members of the Preus family as a private museum.

Museum
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The is a museum documenting the history of the Royal Norwegian Navy. It is located at the former main naval base of in Horten.

Museum
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was an Oslo-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Narvik, the last active ship of the class, was transferred to the in Horten in 2007.

Horten

Latitude
59.4157° or 59° 24′ 56″ north
Longitude
10.4851° or 10° 29′ 6″ east
Population
21,200
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
UN/LOCODE
NO HOR
Open location code
9FFGCF8P+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31264095
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3151770
Wiki­data ID
Q109048
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Horten” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Horten”
  • Arabic: “هورتن”
  • Armenian: “Հորթեն”
  • Asturian: “Horten”
  • Azerbaijani: “Horten”
  • Basque: “Horten”
  • Belarusian: “Хортан”
  • Bengali: “হর্টেন”
  • Bishnupriya: “হোর্টেন”
  • Bulgarian: “Хутен”
  • Catalan: “Horten”
  • Chinese: “霍尔滕”
  • Chinese: “霍滕”
  • Czech: “Horten”
  • Danish: “Horten Kommune”
  • Danish: “Horten”
  • Dutch: “Horten”
  • Esperanto: “Horten”
  • Finnish: “Horten”
  • French: “Horten”
  • German: “Horten”
  • Greek: “Χόρτεν”
  • Hebrew: “הורטן”
  • Hungarian: “Horten”
  • Icelandic: “Horten”
  • Inari Sami: “Horten”
  • Irish: “Horten”
  • Italian: “Horten”
  • 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”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Horten kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “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”
  • Swedish: “Hortens kommun”
  • Tatar: “Һортен”
  • Turkish: “Horten”
  • Ukrainian: “Гортен”
  • Urdu: “ہورٹن”
  • Vietnamese: “Horten”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Horten”
  • Welsh: “Horten”

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