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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ingolfsland Station and Rjukan Station.
Ingolfsland Station
Railway station
Photo: Vinguru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ingolfsland Station is an abandoned railway station on the Rjukan Line at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. It was in use from 1913 to 1970 by Norsk Transport, serving the southern suburbs of Rjukan.
Rjukan Station
Railway station
Photo: Bergenga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rjukan Station is the terminal railway station of the Rjukan Line, located at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. The station opened as part of the railway on 9 August 1909 as Saaheim, until renaming to Rjukan on 15 November 1912.
Rjukan Church
Church
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Rjukan Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Rjukan. It is one of the churches for the Rjukan parish which is part of the Øvre Telemark prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.
Rjukan
- Type: Town with 3,010 residents
- Description: town in Tinn Municipality, Norway
- Categories: city, administrative center, urban area in Norway, and locality
- Location: Tinn, Telemark, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.8787° or 59° 52′ 43″ northLongitude
8.5942° or 8° 35′ 39″ eastPopulation
3,010Elevation
302 metres (991 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO RKNOpen location code
9FFCVHHV+FMOpenStreetMap ID
node 31264133OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rjukan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rjukan”
- Arabic: “ريوكان”
- Aragonese: “Rjukan”
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- Bulgarian: “Риюкан”
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- Catalan: “Rjukan”
- Cebuano: “Rjukan (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Rjukan”
- Chinese: “尤坎”
- Chinese: “留坎”
- Corsican: “Rjukan”
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- Japanese: “リューカン”
- Kongo: “Rjukan”
- Korean: “리우칸”
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- Moksha: “Рьюкан”
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- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rjukan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rjukan”
- Norwegian: “Rjukan”
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- Persian: “ریوکان”
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- Russian: “Рьюкан”
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- Scottish Gaelic: “Rjukan”
- Serbian: “Rjukan”
- Serbian: “Рјукан”
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- Swiss German: “Rjukan”
- Ukrainian: “Рюкан”
- Urdu: “راجوکان”
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