Skien

Skien is a municipality in county, . It is located in the traditional district of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the area and Bø.
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  • Type: municipality of Norway with 54,900 residents
  • Description: municipality in Telemark county, Norway
  • Also known as: “3807”, “conceyu de Skien (Noruega)”, and “Skien Municipality”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Skagerak Arena and Ibsenhuset.

Stadium
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The is a football stadium located in , . It was formerly called Odd Stadion, and was built in 1923 as the home ground of Eliteserien club Odd.

Theater building
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is a in the city of , county. The houses several facilities for concerts, theater performances, opera, exhibits, conferences, courses, meetings and other events.

Church
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is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Skien Municipality in county, . It is located in the . It is the church for the Skien parish which is part of the Skien prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.

Skien

Latitude
59.2075° or 59° 12′ 27″ north
Longitude
9.6105° or 9° 36′ 38″ east
Population
54,900
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
9FFF6J46+X6
Geo­Names ID
6453383
Wiki­data ID
Q2272
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Skien” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Skien”
  • Arabic: “شين”
  • Aragonese: “Skien”
  • Armenian: “Շիեն”
  • Asturian: “Skien”
  • Basque: “Skien”
  • Belarusian: “Шыен”
  • Bishnupriya: “স্কিয়েন”
  • Bulgarian: “Шиен”
  • Catalan: “Skien”
  • Cebuano: “Skien”
  • Central Bikol: “Skien”
  • Chinese: “希恩”
  • Croatian: “Skien”
  • Czech: “Skien”
  • Danish: “Skien Kommune”
  • Danish: “Skien”
  • Dutch: “Skien”
  • Esperanto: “Skien”
  • Estonian: “Skieni vald”
  • Finnish: “Skien”
  • French: “Skien”
  • Galician: “Skien”
  • Georgian: “შიენი”
  • German: “Skien”
  • Greek: “Σίεν”
  • Hebrew: “שיאן”
  • Hungarian: “Skien”
  • Icelandic: “Skien”
  • Ido: “Skien”
  • Indonesian: “Skien”
  • Interlingue: “Skien”
  • Irish: “Skien”
  • Italian: “Skien”
  • Japanese: “シーエン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Skien”
  • Korean: “시엔”
  • Latin: “Skien”
  • Latvian: “Šīena”
  • Limburgan: “Skien”
  • Lithuanian: “Šienas”
  • Low German: “Kommun Skien”
  • Luxembourgish: “Skien”
  • Malay: “Skien”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Skien”
  • Moksha: “Шиэн”
  • Northern Frisian: “Skien”
  • Northern Sami: “Skien”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skien”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skien kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Skien”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Skien”
  • Ossetian: “Шиен”
  • Persian: “شین (نروژ)”
  • Persian: “شین”
  • Piemontese: “Skien”
  • Polish: “Skien”
  • Portuguese: “Skien”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Skien”
  • Romanian: “Skien”
  • Russian: “Шиен”
  • Samogitian: “Šėins”
  • Samogitian: “Šiens”
  • Scots: “Skien”
  • Serbian: “Шијен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skien”
  • Silesian: “Skien”
  • Slovenian: “Skien”
  • Spanish: “Skien”
  • Swahili: “Skien”
  • Swedish: “Skiens kommun”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்கியென்”
  • Tatar: “Шиен”
  • Thai: “เชเอิน”
  • Turkish: “Skien”
  • Ukrainian: “Шієн”
  • Urdu: “شیئن”
  • Vietnamese: “Skien”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Skien”
  • Welsh: “Skien”
  • Western Frisian: “Skien”
  • Western Panjabi: “سکائن”
  • Wu Chinese: “希恩”

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