Kongsberg
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 23,800 residents
- Description: municipality in Buskerud, Norway
- Also known as: “3006”
- Neighbors: Holmestrand, Larvik, Notodden, and Skien
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kongsberg Station and Kongsberghallen.
Kongsberg Station
Railway station
Photo: Mahlum, Public domain.
Kongsberg Station is a railway station located in downtown Kongsberg in Buskerud, Norway, on the Sørlandet Line. The station is served by express trains to Kristiansand and is the terminus of the L12 line from Oslo and Eidsvoll.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skollenborg.
Skollenborg
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skollenborg is a small village in Sandsvær in the municipality of Kongsberg in Buskerud county, Norway. Since 2015 Skollenborg has been a part of the Kongsberg urban area. Skollenborg is situated 6 km southeast of Kongsberg.
Kongsberg
- Categories: municipality of Norway and locality
- Location: Buskerud, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.6695° or 59° 40′ 10″ northLongitude
9.6508° or 9° 39′ 3″ eastPopulation
23,800Elevation
175 metres (574 feet)Open location code
9FFFMM92+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 31264097OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6453373Wikidata ID
Q108988
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Kongsberg” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kongsberg”
- Arabic: “كونغسبرغ”
- Armenian: “Կոնգսբերգ”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Kongsberg (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Kongsberg kommune”
- Asturian: “Kongsberg”
- Azerbaijani: “Konqsberq”
- Basque: “Kongsberg”
- Bishnupriya: “কংসবার্গ”
- Bulgarian: “Конгсберг”
- Catalan: “Kongsberg”
- Cebuano: “Kongsberg (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Chinese: “Kongsberg”
- Chinese: “孔斯貝格”
- Chinese: “孔斯贝格”
- Czech: “Kongsberg”
- Danish: “Kongsberg Kommune”
- Danish: “Kongsberg”
- Dutch: “Kongsberg”
- Esperanto: “Kongsberg”
- Estonian: “Kongsberg”
- Finnish: “Kongsberg”
- French: “Kongsberg”
- Galician: “Kongsberg”
- German: “Kongsberg”
- Greek: “Κόνγκσμπεργκ”
- Hebrew: “קונגסברג”
- Hungarian: “Kongsberg”
- Icelandic: “Kongsberg”
- Irish: “Kongsberg”
- Italian: “Kongsberg”
- Japanese: “コングスベル”
- Japanese: “コングスベルグ”
- Javanese: “Kongsberg”
- Kalaallisut: “Kongsberg”
- Korean: “콩스베르그”
- Latin: “Kongsberg”
- Limburgan: “Kongsberg”
- Lithuanian: “Kongsbergas”
- Low German: “Kommun Kongsberg”
- Macedonian: “Конгсберг”
- Malay: “Kongsberg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kongsberg”
- Moksha: “Конгсбэрг”
- Northern Sami: “Kongsberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongsberg kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongsberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Konningsberg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Kongsberg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kongsberg kommune”
- Norwegian: “Kongsberg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kongsberg”
- Persian: “کونگسبر”
- Persian: “کونگسبرگ”
- Piemontese: “Kongsberg”
- Polish: “Kongsberg”
- Portuguese: “Kongsberg”
- Romanian: “Comuna Kongsberg”
- Romanian: “Kongsberg”
- Russian: “Конгсберг”
- Serbian: “Kongsberg”
- Serbian: “Конгсберг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kongsberg”
- Silesian: “Kongsberg”
- Slovak: “Kongsberg”
- Slovenian: “Kongsberg”
- Spanish: “Kongsberg”
- Swahili: “Kongsberg”
- Swedish: “Kongsberg kommun”
- Swedish: “Kongsbergs kommun”
- Turkish: “Kongsberg”
- Ukrainian: “Конгсберг”
- Ukrainian: “Конґсберґ”
- Ukrainian: “Консбер”
- Vietnamese: “Kongsberg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kongsberg”
- “Kongsberg”
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