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Oslo region

Oslo

Oslo is 's capital and largest city, with 700,000 citizens in the city proper and about 1.5 million inhabitants in greater Oslo. It is in in the Oslofjorden fjord, extending over an inlet of the Skagerrak strait.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Sentrum and North Oslo.

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, literally Centre, is the core of Oslo inside the first ring road, plus the area around the Royal Palace and Tjuvholmen island. This is the area around Oslo's main street, Karl Johan street, and the Akershus fortress overlooking the harbour and the great Oslo fjord.

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comprises the part of Oslo north of the third ring road and the eastbound railway. This district is home to a couple of fine museums and most importantly the wide forested hills, Nordmarka, with countless lakes, fine paths, ski trails, ski slopes and excellent panoramas.

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is the sector of Oslo between Ring 1 and Ring 3 and between Highway 168 in the west and Akerselva in the East. This is an area of fine parks, the University campus and the Aker river with Oslo's industrial past as well as landmark buildings, many hotels and restaurants within walking from Karl Johan street.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Inner East and West Oslo.

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is a part of Oslo, comprising the triangle east of Akerselva, south and west of the third ring road and north of the railway. Here you will find an international environment, many different cultures, less expensive food and drinks and a more bohemian atmosphere than in .

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Western Oslo comprises Oslo west of Ring 1, southwest of Highway 168 and south of Ring 3. In addition the article contains the western suburbs of Oslo that are administratively part of Akershus county.

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is east of the Oslo Fjord and southeast of . Here are many of Oslo's beaches, suburbs and urban centers.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Oslo Opera House and Munch Museum.

Theater building
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The is the home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the national opera house in . The building is situated in the neighbourhood of central Oslo, at the head of the .

Museum
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, marketed as Munch since 2020, is an art museum in , Oslo, Norway dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.

Railway station
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is the main railway station in Oslo, and the largest railway station within the entire Norwegian railway system. It connects with , which is served by trams and the Oslo Metro.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bjørvika and Regjeringskvartalet.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in the borough of Oslo, Norway. The area is an inlet in the inner , situated between Gamlebyen and Akershus Fortress.

Neighborhood
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is a collection of buildings located in the centre of capital city Oslo, housing several offices for the Norwegian Government.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in central Oslo, . Since the 1980s and 1990s, it has been a popular area for shopping, dining, and entertainment, as well as a high-end residential area. It was previously an industrial area.

Oslo

Latitude
59.9133° or 59° 54′ 48″ north
Longitude
10.739° or 10° 44′ 20″ east
Population
1,100,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
OSL
United Nations Location Code
NO OSL
Open location code
9FFGWP7Q+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20981158
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3143244
Wiki­data ID
Q585
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Oslo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oslo”
  • Albanian: “Oslo”
  • Amharic: “ኦስሎ”
  • Arabic: “أوسلو”
  • Aragonese: “Oslo”
  • Armenian: “Օսլո”
  • Arpitan: “Oslo”
  • Asturian: “Oslo”
  • Asturian: “Oslu”
  • Avaric: “Осло”
  • Aymara: “Oslo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oslo”
  • Balinese: “Oslo”
  • Bashkir: “Осло”
  • Basque: “Oslo”
  • Bavarian: “Oslo”
  • Belarusian: “Крыстыянія”
  • Belarusian: “Осла”
  • Belarusian: “Осьлё”
  • Bengali: “অজলো”
  • Bengali: “অসলো”
  • Bengali: “ওস্লো”
  • Betawi: “Oslo”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओज्लो”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओस्लो”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओस्लोव”
  • Bishnupriya: “ওসলো”
  • Bosnian: “Oslo”
  • Breton: “Oslo”
  • Bulgarian: “Осло”
  • Burmese: “အော့စလိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Oslo”
  • Cebuano: “Oslo”
  • Central Bikol: “Oslo”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆسلۆ”
  • Chechen: “Осло”
  • Chinese: “Oslo”
  • Chinese: “奥斯陆”
  • Chinese: “奥斯陆郡”
  • Chinese: “奧斯陸”
  • Church Slavic: “Осло”
  • Chuvash: “Осло”
  • Cornish: “Oslo”
  • Corsican: “Oslu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Oslo”
  • Croatian: “Oslo”
  • Czech: “Oslo”
  • Danish: “Christiania”
  • Danish: “Kristiania”
  • Danish: “Oslo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Oslo”
  • Dutch: “Christiania”
  • Dutch: “Oslo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوسلو”
  • Erzya: “Осло ош”
  • Esperanto: “Oslo”
  • Estonian: “Oslo”
  • Ewe: “Oslo”
  • Extremaduran: “Oslu”
  • Faroese: “Oslo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Oslo”
  • Finnish: “Christiania”
  • Finnish: “Kristiania”
  • Finnish: “Oslo”
  • French: “Christiania”
  • French: “Kristiania”
  • French: “Oslo”
  • Friulian: “Oslo”
  • Gagauz: “Oslo”
  • Galician: “Oslo”
  • Georgian: “ოსლო”
  • German: “Christiania”
  • German: “Kristiania”
  • German: “Oslo”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌻𐍉”
  • Greek: “Όσλο”
  • Gujarati: “ઓસ્લો”
  • Haitian: “Oslo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Oslo”
  • Hausa: “Oslo”
  • Hawaiian: “Oslo”
  • Hebrew: “אוסלו”
  • Hebrew: “כריסטיאניה”
  • Hindi: “ओस्लो”
  • Hungarian: “Christiania”
  • Hungarian: “Kristiania”
  • Hungarian: “Oslo”
  • Icelandic: “Osló”
  • Icelandic: “Ósló”
  • Ido: “Oslo”
  • Inari Sami: “Oslo”
  • Indonesian: “Oslo”
  • Interlingua: “Oslo”
  • Interlingue: “Oslo”
  • Irish: “Osló”
  • Italian: “Oslo”
  • Japanese: “オスロ”
  • Japanese: “クリスチャニア”
  • Japanese: “クリスティアーニア”
  • Japanese: “乞食の都市”
  • Japanese: “虎の都市”
  • Javanese: “Oslo”
  • Kabiyè: “Ɔsɩloo”
  • Kabyle: “Oslo”
  • Kalaallisut: “Oslo”
  • Kannada: “ಓಸ್ಲೋ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Oslo”
  • Kashubian: “Oslo”
  • Kazakh: “Осло қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Осло”
  • Kirghiz: “Осло”
  • Komering: “Oslo”
  • Komi: “Осло”
  • Korean: “오슬로”
  • Korean: “크리스티아니아”
  • Kotava: “Oslo”
  • Kurdish: “Oslo”
  • Ladino: “Oslo”
  • Lak: “Осло”
  • Lao: “ອອສໂລ”
  • Latin: “Asloa”
  • Latin: “Osloa”
  • Latvian: “Kristiānija”
  • Latvian: “Oslo”
  • Lezghian: “Осло”
  • Ligurian: “Oslo”
  • Limburgan: “Oslo”
  • Lingala: “Oslo”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Oslo”
  • Lithuanian: “Oslas”
  • Livvi: “Oslo”
  • Lombard: “Oslo”
  • Low German: “Oslo”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Oslo”
  • Lule Sami: “Oslo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oslo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Oslo”
  • Macedonian: “Осло”
  • Malagasy: “Oslo”
  • Malay: “Oslo”
  • Malay: “اوسلو”
  • Malayalam: “ഓസ്ലൊ”
  • Maltese: “Oslo”
  • Manx: “Oslo”
  • Maori: “Ōhoro”
  • Marathi: “ओस्लो”
  • Mazanderani: “اسلو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ó̤-sṳ̆-lṳ̆k”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Oslo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oslo”
  • Minangkabau: “Oslo”
  • Mingrelian: “ოსლო”
  • Moksha: “Осла”
  • Moksha: “Осло”
  • Mongolian: “Осло”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أوسلو”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ؤصلو”
  • Nauru: “Oslo”
  • Navajo: “Tsį́į́haltsooí”
  • Nepali: “ओस्लो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oslo”
  • Northern Luri: “اسلو”
  • Northern Sami: “Oslo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Christiania”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kristiania”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oslo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oslo”
  • Norwegian: “Oslo”
  • Novial: “Oslo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oslo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Òslo”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܣܠܘ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Osleah”
  • Oriya: “ଅସଲୋ”
  • Ossetian: “Осло”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਸਲੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Oslo”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Oslo”
  • Persian: “اسلو”
  • Picard: “Oslo”
  • Piemontese: “Òslo”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Oslo”
  • Polish: “Oslo”
  • Portuguese: “Oslo”
  • Pushto: “اسلو”
  • Pushto: “اوسلو”
  • Quechua: “Oslo”
  • Quechua: “Uslu”
  • Romanian: “Oslo”
  • Romansh: “Oslo”
  • Russia Buriat: “Осло”
  • Russian: “Кристиания”
  • Russian: “Осло”
  • Russian: “Христиания”
  • Rusyn: “Осло”
  • Sakizaya: “Aw-s-lu”
  • Samogitian: “Uoslos”
  • Santali: “ᱚᱥᱞᱳ”
  • Santali: “ᱳᱥᱞᱳ ᱫᱤᱥᱚᱢ”
  • Santali: “ᱳᱥᱞᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “Oslo”
  • Scots: “Oslo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Oslo”
  • Serbian: “Осло”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oslo”
  • Shona: “Oslo”
  • Sicilian: “Oslu”
  • Silesian: “Oslo”
  • Sindhi: “اوسلو”
  • Sinhala: “ඔස්ලෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Oslo”
  • Slovak: “Oslo”
  • Slovenian: “Oslo”
  • Somali: “Oslo”
  • Southern Sami: “Oslove”
  • Spanish: “Christiania”
  • Spanish: “Cristianía”
  • Spanish: “Kristiania”
  • Spanish: “Oslo”
  • Swahili: “Oslo”
  • Swedish: “Christiania”
  • Swedish: “Kristiania”
  • Swedish: “Oslo”
  • Swiss German: “Christiania”
  • Swiss German: “Kristiania”
  • Swiss German: “Oslo”
  • Tagalog: “Oslo”
  • Tahitian: “Oslo”
  • Tajik: “Осло”
  • Tamil: “ஆஸ்லோ”
  • Tamil: “ஒசுலோ”
  • Tamil: “ஒஸ்லோ”
  • Tatar: “Осло”
  • Telugu: “ఓస్లో”
  • Thai: “ออสโล”
  • Tibetan: “ཨོ་སི་ལོ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Oslo”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Oslo”
  • Tsonga: “Oslo”
  • Tumbuka: “Oslo”
  • Turkish: “Oslo”
  • Turkmen: “Oslo”
  • Twi: “Oslo”
  • Udmurt: “Осло”
  • Uighur: “ئوسلو”
  • Ukrainian: “Кристіанія”
  • Ukrainian: “Осло”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kristiania”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Oslo”
  • Urdu: “اوسلو”
  • Uzbek: “Oslo”
  • Venetian: “Oslo”
  • Veps: “Oslo”
  • Vietnamese: “Oslo”
  • Vlaams: “Oslo”
  • Vlax Romani: “Oslo”
  • Volapük: “Oslo”
  • Võro: “Oslo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oslo”
  • Welsh: “Oslo”
  • Western Frisian: “Oslo”
  • Western Mari: “Осло”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوسلو”
  • Wolof: “Oslo”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥斯陆”
  • Yakut: “Осло”
  • Yiddish: “אסלא”
  • Yoruba: “Oslo”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧斯陸”
  • Zeeuws: “Oslo”
  • Zulu: “i-Oslo”
  • “ma tomo Usilu”
  • “Oslo”
  • “Òślo”
  • “Uoslos”
  • “ओस्लो”

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