Telemark
Telemark is a county in East Norway. It is a rugged area with many big lakes and picturesque valleys. The county stretches from the industrial towns along the sea through the forested hills and secluded valleys to the barren, unpopulated Hardangervidda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Skien and Porsgrunn.
Skien
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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.
Porsgrunn
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Porsgrunn is a town in the county of Telemark in Norway with a population of 35,000. The larger town of Skien is nearby and the combined urban area has a population of 87,000.
Notodden
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Notodden is a town and municipality in Telemark County, in East Norway. The population of the town is 9,000, and that of the whole municipality is 12,000.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Kragerø and Rjukan.
Kragerø
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Kragerø is a village of 5,400 people on the southern coast of Norway in Telemark. The place where Edvard Munch found peace and relaxation offers forests, fjords and islands.
Rjukan
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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.
Langesund
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Langesund is the administrative centre of Bamble Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The town is located on a peninsula along the Langesundsfjorden near the Skaggerak coast.
Dalen
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Dalen is the administrative centre of Tokke Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The village is located at the flat river delta where the river Tokke flows into the west end of the lake Bandak.
Haukeli
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Haukeli is a small mountain village in Vinje, Telemark. Haukeli is home to a wide range of services for visitors to the area. During winter, the Haukelifjell mountains are beautiful and wild.
Vrådal
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Vrådal is a village area in Kviteseid Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The village is located along the northern end of the lake Nisser and the eastern end of the lake Vråvatn.
Rauland
Rauland is in Telemark, Norway. Rauland, with its 700- to 1100-metre elevation, has for many years been a snow classic for the whole family, in short distance from Larvik, Oslo, Kristiansand and Haugesund.
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Telemark
- Type: county of Norway with 171,000 residents
- Description: Norwegian county
- Also known as: “Telemark county”, “Telemark County Council”, and “Telemark Fylke”
- Historically known as: “Bratsberg amt”
- Neighbors: Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland, and Vestfold
- Category: former county of Norway
- Location: East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Telemark” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Telemark”
- Arabic: “تلمارك”
- Aragonese: “Telemark”
- Armenian: “Տելեմարկ”
- Asturian: “Telemark”
- Azerbaijani: “Telemark”
- Basque: “Telemark”
- Belarusian: “Тэлемарк”
- Bishnupriya: “টেলেমার্ক”
- Bosnian: “Telemark”
- Breton: “Telemark”
- Bulgarian: “Телемарк”
- Catalan: “Telemark”
- Cebuano: “Telemark fylke”
- Chinese: “Telemark”
- Chinese: “泰勒馬克”
- Chinese: “泰勒馬克郡”
- Chinese: “泰勒马克郡”
- Cornish: “Telemark”
- Croatian: “Telemark”
- Czech: “Telemark”
- Danish: “Telemark”
- Danish: “Telemarken”
- Dutch: “Telemark”
- Esperanto: “Telemark”
- Estonian: “Telemargi maakond”
- Estonian: “Telemark”
- Faroese: “Telemark fylke”
- Faroese: “Telemark fylki”
- Finnish: “Telemarkin lääni”
- French: “Comté de Telemark”
- French: “Telemark”
- Georgian: “ტელემარკი”
- German: “Telemark”
- Greek: “Τέλεμαρκ”
- Hebrew: “טלמרק”
- Hindi: “टेलीमार्क”
- Hungarian: “Telemark megye”
- Icelandic: “Þelamörk”
- Indonesian: “Telemark”
- Italian: “Telemark”
- Japanese: “テレマルク県”
- Korean: “텔레마르크주”
- Latin: “Telemarchia”
- Latin: “Tilemarchia”
- Latvian: “Tēlemarka”
- Limburgan: “Telemark”
- Lithuanian: “Telemarkas”
- Low German: “Amt Telemark”
- Macedonian: “Телемарк”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Telemark”
- Northern Sami: “Telemárkku fylka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Telemark fylke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Telemark”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Telemark fylke”
- Norwegian: “Telemark”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Telemark”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þelamearc”
- Ossetian: “Телемарк”
- Persian: “تلمارک”
- Polish: “Telemark”
- Portuguese: “Telemark”
- Pushto: “تلمارک”
- Romanian: “Telemark”
- Russian: “Телемарк”
- Samogitian: “Telemarks”
- Scots: “Telemark”
- Serbian: “Телемарк”
- Slovak: “Telemark”
- Slovenian: “Telemark”
- South Azerbaijani: “تلمارک”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Telemark”
- Spanish: “Telemark”
- Swahili: “Telemark”
- Swedish: “Telemark fylke”
- Swedish: “Telemark”
- Tamil: “டெலிமார்க்”
- Turkish: “Telemark”
- Ukrainian: “Телемарк”
- Urdu: “تیلیمارک”
- Vietnamese: “Telemark”
- Vlaams: “Telemark”
- Waray (Philippines): “Telemark”
- Western Frisian: “Telemark”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹیلیمارک”
- Wu Chinese: “泰勒马克郡”
- Yue Chinese: “泰勒馬克”
- “Telemarks”
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