Rjukan
Rjukan is a town in the Tinn municipality of Telemark, Norway. The town was founded in 1908 by Sam Eyde, who started the plan of building a city from scratch, after buying the renowned Rjukan waterfall to make electric power for fertilizer production.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Town with about 3,010 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 300 metres (970 feet)
- Description: town in Tinn Municipality, Norway
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ingolfsland Station and Rjukan Station.
Ingolfsland Station
Ingolfsland Station is an abandoned railway station…
Rjukan Station
Rjukan Station is the terminal railway station of the…
Rjukan
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Latitude
59.8787° or 59° 52′ 43″ north
Longitude
8.5942° or 8° 35′ 39″ east
UN/LOCODE
NO RKN
Open location code
9FFCVHHV+FM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rjukan” goes by many names.
RjukanAfrikaans
ريوكانArabic
RjukanAragonese
RjukanArpitan
RjukanAsturian
RükanAzerbaijani
RjukanBasque
RjukanBavarian
RjukanBreton
РиюканBulgarian
РюканBulgarian
RjukanCatalan
RjukanCebuano
Rjukan (kapital sa munisipyo)Cebuano
尤坎Chinese
留坎Chinese
RjukanCorsican
RjukanCroatian
RjukanCzech
RjukanDanish
RjukanDutch
ريوكانEgyptian Arabic
RjukanEsperanto
RjukanEstonian
RjukanFinnish
RjukanFriulian
RjukanGalician
RjukanHungarian
RjukanIcelandic
RjukanIdo
RjukanIndonesian
RjukanInterlingua
RjukanInterlingue
RjukanIrish
RjukanItalian
リューカンJapanese
RjukanJèrriais
RjukanKongo
리우칸Korean
RjukanLigurian
RjukanLimburgan
RjukanLow German
RjukanLuxembourgish
RjukanMalagasy
RjukanMalay
RjukanMinangkabau
РьюканMoksha
RjukanNeapolitan
RjukanNorwegian
RjukanNorwegian Bokmål
RjukanNorwegian Nynorsk
RjukanOccitan (post 1500)
ریوکانPersian
RjukanPicard
RjukanPiemontese
RjukanPolish
RjukanRomanian
RjukanRomansh
РьюканRussian
РюканRussian
RjukanSardinian
RjukanScots
RjukanScottish Gaelic
RjukanSerbian
РјуканSerbian
RjukanSicilian
RjukanSlovak
RjukanSlovenian
RjukanSwahili
RjukanSwedish
RjukanSwiss German
RjukanTurkish
РюканUkrainian
راجوکانUrdu
RjukanVenetian
RjukanVietnamese
RjukanVlaams
RjukanVolapük
RjukanWalloon
RjukanWelsh
RjukanWolof
RjukanZulu
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