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Oslo region

The Oslo region is the central area of including the capital 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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Oslo and Sentrum.

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

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, literally Centre, is the core of 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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is the main airport serving and most of . The airport is at Gardermoen about 40 km north of Oslo about 20 minutes by train.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Eidsvoll and Ski.

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is a town in the Oslo region of . It is also in the heart of every Norwegian patriot for being the site of the signing of the modern Norwegian constitution in 1814, an important step towards full independence from the country's neighbours.

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is a town and former a municipality in the new municipality of Nordre Follo Municipality in the greater region Follo, in Akershus county, . is the most populous and largest town in Follo, and serves as the de facto municipality center of Nordre Follo.

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is a municipality in Akershus county, . It is part of the Follo traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of .

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is in the Frogn municipality, in the county of Akershus in , at the shores of the Oslofjord, a few miles south-east of .

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is the administrative center of the municipality of Bærum. It is located in the Viken county in Norway, approximately 10 kilometers west of .
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Oslo region

Latitude of center
60° north
Longitude of center
11° east
Population
716,000
Wiki­data ID
Q50615
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Satellite Map

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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: “Akersxus”
  • 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: “Akershus”
  • Chinese: “阿克什胡斯”
  • Chinese: “阿克什胡斯郡”
  • Cornish: “Akershus”
  • Croatian: “Akershus”
  • Czech: “Akershus”
  • 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: “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”
  • 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”
  • “Akeškiūsos”

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