Troms
Troms is a county in Northern Norway. It is an area of big islands, jagged mountains, deep valleys and long winters. Tromsø city is the northern lights capital of Norway and northern lights hunters often travel around the county and even into Finland in search of the magic light.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tromsø and Harstad.
Tromsø
Tromsø is a city of around 78,000 people in the very northernmost part of Norway. It is almost 350 km north of the Arctic Circle and is one of the best places to view the spectacular Northern Lights in winter.
Harstad
Harstad is a city and municipality in the county of Troms in Northern Norway. Harstad is situated on Norway's largest coastal island, Hinnøya. The region is very varied, with coastal mountains, fjords, some agriculture and even a national park on the island itself - Møysalen National Park.
Senja
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Senja is the second largest island in Norway. The island is situated in Northern Norway, between the city of Tromsø and the town of Harstad.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Karlsøy and Skjervøy.
Karlsøy
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Karlsøy is an island municipality in Troms, Norway, with a population of about 2,282 people. The municipality consists of about 600 inhabited and uninhabited islands; the five inhabited islands are Ringvassøya, Vannøya, Reinøya, Rebbenesøya and Karlsøya.
Skjervøy
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Skjervøy is an archipelago municipality in Troms. The main village is the one by the same name on the island of Skjervøya.
Lyngen
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Lyngen is a municipality in the Region of Troms in Northern Norway. The municipality is characterized by the towering, alpine mountains that rise 1833 metres right up from the Arctic Ocean.
Skibotn
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Skibotn is a village in Troms. It used to be an important meeting place between Norwegians, Sámi and Kven people, with a yearly market. Skibotn is on the shore in the innermost part of the fjord Lyngen, surrounded by large mountains including Nallagais, Imagais, Steindalsbreen, Balggesvarr and Storfjellet.
Bardufoss
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Bardufoss is a small town in Troms, which has grown together with the nearby village of Andselv. It has an important regional airport and a large airbase, beautiful pine forests, the wild meandering Malselv river, and is close to the Dividalen National Park.
Troms
- Type: county of Norway with 153,000 residents
- Description: Norwegian county
- Also known as: “Troms County”
- Neighbors: Finnish Lapland, Finnmark, Nordland, and Norrbotten County
- Category: former county of Norway
- Location: Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Troms” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Troms”
- Albanian: “Troms”
- Arabic: “ترومس”
- Aragonese: “Troms”
- Armenian: “Թրոմս”
- Asturian: “Troms”
- Basque: “Troms”
- Bavarian: “Troms”
- Belarusian: “Тромс”
- Bengali: “ট্রোমস”
- Bishnupriya: “ট্রোমস”
- Bosnian: “Troms”
- Breton: “Troms”
- Bulgarian: “Тромс”
- Catalan: “Troms”
- Cebuano: “Troms Fylke”
- Chinese: “Troms”
- Chinese: “特罗姆斯郡”
- Chinese: “特羅姆斯”
- Chinese: “特羅姆斯郡”
- Cornish: “Troms”
- Croatian: “Troms”
- Czech: “Troms”
- Danish: “Troms”
- Dutch: “Troms”
- Esperanto: “Troms”
- Estonian: “Troms”
- Estonian: “Tromsi maakond”
- Faroese: “Troms fylke”
- Faroese: “Troms fylki”
- Finnish: “Troms fylke”
- Finnish: “Tromssan lääni”
- French: “Comté de Troms”
- French: “Troms”
- Georgian: “ტრომსი”
- German: “Troms”
- Greek: “Τρομς”
- Gujarati: “ટ્રોમ્સ”
- Hebrew: “טרומס”
- Hindi: “ट्रॉम्स”
- Hindi: “ट्रोम्स”
- Hungarian: “Troms megye”
- Icelandic: “Tromsfylki”
- Inari Sami: “Tromsa lääni”
- Indonesian: “Troms”
- Interlingue: “Troms”
- Irish: “Troms”
- Italian: “Troms”
- Japanese: “トロムス県”
- Kannada: “ಟ್ರೋಮ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “트롬스주”
- Latin: “Troms”
- Latvian: “Trumse”
- Limburgan: “Troms”
- Lithuanian: “Trumsas”
- Low German: “Amt Troms”
- Macedonian: “Тромс”
- Malay: “Troms”
- Marathi: “ट्रॉम्स”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Troms”
- Northern Sami: “Romsa”
- Northern Sami: “Romssa fylka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Troms”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Troms fylke”
- Norwegian: “Troms”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Troms”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Troms”
- Ossetian: “Тромс”
- Panjabi: “ਟਰੌਮਸ”
- Persian: “ترومز”
- Persian: “ترومس”
- Polish: “Troms”
- Portuguese: “Troms”
- Pushto: “ترومس”
- Romanian: “Troms”
- Russian: “Тромс”
- Samogitian: “Tromsos”
- Scots: “Troms”
- Serbian: “Тромс”
- Sinhala: “ට්රොම්ස්”
- Slovak: “Troms”
- Slovenian: “Troms”
- Somali: “Troms”
- South Azerbaijani: “ترومس”
- Southern Sami: “Romsa”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Troms”
- Spanish: “Troms”
- Swahili: “Troms”
- Swedish: “Troms fylke”
- Swedish: “Troms”
- Tajik: “Тромс”
- Tamil: “ட்ரோம்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Тромс”
- Telugu: “ట్రోమ్స్”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลทรุมส์”
- Turkish: “Troms”
- Ukrainian: “Трумс”
- Urdu: “ترومس”
- Vietnamese: “Troms”
- Vlaams: “Troms”
- Waray (Philippines): “Troms”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹرومز”
- Wu Chinese: “特罗姆斯”
- Wu Chinese: “特罗姆斯郡”
- Yue Chinese: “特羅姆斯”
- “Troms”
- “Tromsos”
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