Rjukan

Rjukan is a town in the Tinn municipality of , . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 3,010 residents
  • Description: town in Tinn Municipality, Norway
  • Also known as: “Риюкан”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ingolfsland Station and Rjukan Station.

Railway station
Photo: Vinguru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an abandoned railway station on the Rjukan Line at Rjukan in Tinn Municipality, . It was in use from 1913 to 1970 by Norsk Transport, serving the southern suburbs of Rjukan.

Railway station
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is the terminal railway station of the Rjukan Line, located at Rjukan in Tinn Municipality, . The station opened as part of the railway on 9 August 1909 as Saaheim, until renaming to Rjukan on 15 November 1912.

Church
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is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tinn Municipality in county, . 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

Latitude
59.8787° or 59° 52′ 43″ north
Longitude
8.5942° or 8° 35′ 39″ east
Population
3,010
Elevation
302 metres (991 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NO RKN
Open location code
9FFCVHHV+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31264133
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3141682
Wiki­data ID
Q991201
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rjukan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rjukan”
  • Arabic: “ريوكان”
  • Aragonese: “Rjukan”
  • Arpitan: “Rjukan”
  • Asturian: “Rjukan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rükan”
  • Basque: “Rjukan”
  • Bavarian: “Rjukan”
  • Breton: “Rjukan”
  • Bulgarian: “Рюкан”
  • Catalan: “Rjukan”
  • Cebuano: “Rjukan (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Rjukan”
  • Chinese: “尤坎”
  • Chinese: “留坎”
  • Corsican: “Rjukan”
  • Croatian: “Rjukan”
  • Czech: “Rjukan”
  • Danish: “Rjukan”
  • Dutch: “Rjukan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ريوكان”
  • Esperanto: “Rjukan”
  • Estonian: “Rjukan”
  • Finnish: “Rjukan”
  • French: “Rjukan”
  • Friulian: “Rjukan”
  • Galician: “Rjukan”
  • German: “Rjukan”
  • Hungarian: “Rjukan”
  • Icelandic: “Rjukan”
  • Ido: “Rjukan”
  • Indonesian: “Rjukan”
  • Interlingua: “Rjukan”
  • Interlingue: “Rjukan”
  • Irish: “Rjukan”
  • Italian: “Rjukan”
  • Japanese: “リューカン”
  • Jèrriais: “Rjukan”
  • Kongo: “Rjukan”
  • Korean: “리우칸”
  • Ligurian: “Rjukan”
  • Limburgan: “Rjukan”
  • Low German: “Rjukan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rjukan”
  • Malagasy: “Rjukan”
  • Malay: “Rjukan”
  • Minangkabau: “Rjukan”
  • Moksha: “Рьюкан”
  • Neapolitan: “Rjukan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rjukan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rjukan”
  • Norwegian: “Rjukan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rjukan”
  • Persian: “ریوکان”
  • Picard: “Rjukan”
  • Piemontese: “Rjukan”
  • Polish: “Rjukan”
  • Portuguese: “Rjukan”
  • Romanian: “Rjukan”
  • Romansh: “Rjukan”
  • Russian: “Рьюкан”
  • Sardinian: “Rjukan”
  • Scots: “Rjukan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rjukan”
  • Serbian: “Rjukan”
  • Serbian: “Рјукан”
  • Sicilian: “Rjukan”
  • Slovak: “Rjukan”
  • Slovenian: “Rjukan”
  • Spanish: “Rjukan”
  • Swahili: “Rjukan”
  • Swedish: “Rjukan”
  • Swiss German: “Rjukan”
  • Turkish: “Rjukan”
  • Ukrainian: “Рюкан”
  • Urdu: “راجوکان”
  • Venetian: “Rjukan”
  • Vietnamese: “Rjukan”
  • Vlaams: “Rjukan”
  • Volapük: “Rjukan”
  • Walloon: “Rjukan”
  • Welsh: “Rjukan”
  • Wolof: “Rjukan”
  • Zulu: “Rjukan”

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