Oppland
Oppland is a county in Norway. This wide landlocked county is home to great lakes, major rivers and the highest mountains in the Nordic countries. Oppland also hosts key overland transport corridors and travel by car or train through Norway usually include Oppland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lillehammer and Gjøvik.
Lillehammer
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Lillehammer is a small town in the county of Oppland in south-central Norway. Lillehammer is best remembered as the site of the 1994 Winter Olympics, but it's also worth a visit in the summer for its beautifully preserved late 19th-century wooden houses.
Gjøvik
Gjøvik is a city in Oppland. Gjøvik sits on the western of the great Mjøsa lake, Norway's widest and second deepest lake, across from Hamar.
Lom
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Lom is a small town of 2,200 in East Norway's Oppland County and serves as a gateway to Jotunheimen.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Gudbrandsdalen and Valdres.
Gudbrandsdalen
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Gudbrandsdalen is a valley and traditional district in Oppland. This grand, central valley runs for some 250 km from Lillehammer to the uplands and central mountains.
Valdres
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Valdres is a romantic and wild highland region in western Oppland County, Norway. This region reaches the edge of the wild Jotunheimen and also includes more gentle and wide tundra-like highlands, while down below there are lovely lakes, great valleys and little villages all along.
Oppland
- Type: county of Norway with 190,000 residents
- Description: former county of Norway (1919–2019)
- Neighbors: Buskerud, Hedmark, Møre og Romsdal, Oslo region, Sogn og Fjordane, and Trøndelag
- Category: former county of Norway
- Location: East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude of center
61.3333° or 61° 19′ 60″ northLongitude of center
9.5667° or 9° 34′ 0″ eastPopulation
190,000Wikidata ID
Q50617
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Satellite Map
Discover Oppland from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Oppland” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oppland”
- Albanian: “Oppland”
- Arabic: “أوبلاند”
- Armenian: “Օպլանդ”
- Armenian: “Օփլան”
- Asturian: “Oppland”
- Basque: “Oppland”
- Bavarian: “Oppland”
- Belarusian: “Оплан”
- Belarusian: “Оплян”
- Bengali: “অপল্যান্ড”
- Bishnupriya: “ওপল্যান্ড”
- Bosnian: “Oppland”
- Breton: “Oppland”
- Bulgarian: “Оплан”
- Catalan: “Oppland”
- Cebuano: “Oppland fylke”
- Chinese: “Oppland”
- Chinese: “奥普兰”
- Chinese: “奧普蘭”
- Cornish: “Oppland”
- Croatian: “Oppland”
- Czech: “Oppland”
- Danish: “Oppland”
- Dutch: “Oppland”
- Esperanto: “Oppland”
- Estonian: “Oppland”
- Estonian: “Opplandi maakond”
- Faroese: “Oppland fylke”
- Faroese: “Oppland fylki”
- Finnish: “Opplandin lääni”
- French: “Comté d’Oppland”
- French: “Oppland”
- Georgian: “ოპლანი”
- German: “Oppland”
- Greek: “Όπλαντ”
- Gujarati: “ઓપ્પલેન્ડ”
- Hebrew: “אופלנד (נורווגיה)”
- Hebrew: “אופלנד”
- Hindi: “ओपलैंड”
- Hungarian: “Oppland megye”
- Icelandic: “Upplönd”
- Indonesian: “Oppland”
- Italian: “Oppland”
- Japanese: “オップラン県”
- Kannada: “ಆಪ್ಲಾಂಡ್”
- Korean: “오플란주”
- Latin: “Opplandia”
- Latvian: “Oplanne”
- Limburgan: “Oppland”
- Lithuanian: “Oplandas”
- Low German: “Amt Oppland”
- Macedonian: “Оплан”
- Macedonian: “Опланд”
- Malay: “Oppland”
- Marathi: “ऑप्पलँड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oppland”
- Nauru: “Oppland”
- Northern Sami: “Opplándda fylka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oppland fylke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oppland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oppland fylke”
- Norwegian: “Oppland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oppland”
- Ossetian: “Опланн”
- Persian: “اوپلاند (نروژ)”
- Persian: “اوپلاند”
- Polish: “Oppland”
- Portuguese: “Oppland”
- Pushto: “اوپلاند (ناروې)”
- Pushto: “اوپلاند”
- Romanian: “Oppland”
- Russian: “Оппланн”
- Samogitian: “Uoplands”
- Scots: “Oppland”
- Serbian: “Опланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oppland”
- Sinhala: “ඔප්ලන්ඩ්”
- Slovak: “Oppland”
- Slovenian: “Oppland”
- Somali: “Oppland”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوپلاند”
- Spanish: “Oppland”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Oppland”
- Swahili: “Oppland”
- Swedish: “Oppland fylke”
- Swedish: “Oppland”
- Tajik: “Уплонд”
- Tamil: “ஒப்பிலான்ட்”
- Telugu: “ఆప్లాండ్”
- Thai: “เทศบาลเมืองโคการ์”
- Turkish: “Oppland”
- Ukrainian: “Оппланн”
- Urdu: “اوپلان”
- Vietnamese: “Oppland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oppland”
- Western Panjabi: “اوپلینڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “奥普兰”
- Wu Chinese: “奥普兰郡”
- “Uoplands”
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