Skien
Skien is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the Norsjø area and Bø.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Norway with 54,900 residents
- Description: municipality in Telemark county, Norway
- Also known as: “3807”, “Skien kommune”, and “Skien Municipality”
- Neighbors: Kongsberg and Porsgrunn
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skagerak Arena and Ibsenhuset.
Skagerak Arena
Stadium
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The Skagerak Arena is a football stadium located in Skien, Norway. It was formerly called Odd Stadion, and was built in 1923 as the home ground of Eliteserien club Odd.
Ibsenhuset
Theater building
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Ibsenhuset is a Norwegian cultural centre in the city of Skien, Telemark county. The building houses several facilities for concerts, theater performances, opera, exhibits, conferences, courses, meetings and other events.
Skien Church
Church
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Skien Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Skien Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Skien. It is the church for the Skien parish which is part of the Skien prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.
Skien
- Location: Telemark, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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: “conceyu de Skien (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Skien kommune”
- Asturian: “Skien”
- Basque: “Skien”
- Belarusian: “Шыен”
- Bishnupriya: “স্কিয়েন”
- Bulgarian: “Шиен”
- Catalan: “Skien”
- Cebuano: “Skien”
- Central Bikol: “Skien”
- Chinese: “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 kommune”
- 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”
- 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”
- “Šiens”
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