Oslo region
The Oslo region is the central area of East Norway including the capital Oslo and the Akershus district surrounding it. It's a contiguous metropolitan area with more than 25% of Norway's population and the visitor can regard it as one city.
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Oslo Airport, Gardermoen
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Oslo region
- County of Norway with about 749,000 residents
- …is also known as “Akershus”
- Description: Norwegian county
- Neighbors
- Category: former county of Norway
- Location
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Latitude of center
60° north
Longitude of center
11° east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Oslo region” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Akershus”
- Albanian: “Akershus”
- Arabic: “آكرشوس”
- Aragonese: “Akershus”
- Armenian: “Ակերսհուս”
- Armenian: “Աքերսհուս”
- Asturian: “Akershus”
- Azerbaijani: “Akershus”
- Basque: “Akershus”
- Bavarian: “Akershus”
- Belarusian: “Акерсгус”
- Belarusian: “Акерсхус”
- Bengali: “একেরশাস”
- Bishnupriya: “আকেরশুস”
- Bosnian: “Akershus”
- Breton: “Akershus”
- Bulgarian: “Акешхус”
- Catalan: “Akershus”
- Cebuano: “Akershus fylke”
- Chechen: “Акерсхус”
- Chinese: “阿克什胡斯郡”
- Cornish: “Akershus”
- Croatian: “Akershus”
- Czech: “Akershus”
- Danish: “Akershus Fylke”
- Danish: “Akershus”
- Dutch: “Akershus”
- Esperanto: “Akershus”
- Estonian: “Akershus”
- Estonian: “Akershusi maakond”
- Faroese: “Akershus fylki”
- Finnish: “Akerhus fylke”
- Finnish: “Akerhus”
- Finnish: “Akershusin lääni”
- French: “Akershus”
- French: “Comté d’Akershus”
- Georgian: “აკერსხუსი”
- Georgian: “აკერსჰუსი”
- German: “Akershus”
- Greek: “Ακέρσους”
- Gujarati: “અકર્સસ”
- Hebrew: “אקרסהוס”
- Hebrew: “אקשהוס”
- Hindi: “अकर्शस”
- Hungarian: “Akershus megye”
- Icelandic: “Akershus”
- Icelandic: “Akurshús”
- Inari Sami: “Akershus lääni”
- Indonesian: “Akershus”
- Interlingua: “Akershus”
- Interlingua: “Contato de Akershus”
- Italian: “Akershus”
- Japanese: “アーケシュフース県”
- Kannada: “ಅಕರ್ಶಸ್”
- Korean: “아케르스후스주”
- Ladin: “Akershus”
- Latin: “Aggerhusium”
- Latvian: “Ākešhusa”
- Limburgan: “Akershus”
- Lithuanian: “Akershusas”
- Lithuanian: “Akešhiusas”
- Low German: “Amt Akershus”
- Macedonian: “Акерсхус”
- Macedonian: “Акершус”
- Malay: “Akershus”
- Marathi: “अकर्सस”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Akershus”
- Nauru: “Akershus”
- Nepali: “एकर्सहस”
- Northern Sami: “Akershusa fylka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akershus fylke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akershus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akershus fylke”
- Norwegian: “Akershus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Akershus”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Æcerhūs”
- Ossetian: “Акерсхус”
- Persian: “آکرشوس”
- Persian: “آکرهوس”
- Polish: “Akershus”
- Portuguese: “Akershus”
- Pushto: “اکرشوس”
- Romanian: “Akershus”
- Russian: “Акерсхус”
- Samogitian: “Akeškiūsos”
- Scots: “Akershus”
- Serbian: “Акерсхус”
- Sinhala: “අකෙර්ෂුස්”
- Slovak: “Akershus”
- Slovenian: “Akershus”
- South Azerbaijani: “آکرشوس”
- Spanish: “Akershus”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Akershus”
- Swahili: “Akershus”
- Swedish: “Akershus fylke”
- Swedish: “Akershus”
- Tamil: “அகிற்ஸ்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “ఆకేర్షస”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลอาเกิชฮืส”
- Turkish: “Akershus”
- Ukrainian: “Акерсгус”
- Urdu: “آکیشوس”
- Vietnamese: “Akershus”
- Vlaams: “Akershus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Akershus”
- Western Frisian: “Akershus”
- Western Panjabi: “اکرشس”
- Wu Chinese: “阿克什胡斯”
- Wu Chinese: “阿克什胡斯郡”
- Yue Chinese: “阿克什胡斯”
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