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.
Photo: Mahlum, Public domain.
- 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skollenborg.
Skollenborg
Hamlet
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″ north
Longitude
9.6508° or 9° 39′ 3″ east
Population
23,800
Elevation
175 metres (574 feet)
Open location code
9FFFMM92+R8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Kongsberg from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- Urdu: “کونگزبرگ”
- Vietnamese: “Kongsberg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kongsberg”
- “Kongsberg”
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