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Troms

Tromsø

Tromsø is a city of around 78,000 people in the very northernmost part of . 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.
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  • Type: City with 42,800 residents
  • Description: municipality in Troms, Norway
  • Also known as: “5401”, “Romsa”, “Tromso”, “Tromsö”, “Tromsø Municipality”, and “Tromssa”
  • Neighbors: and
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Photo: Lars Tiede, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arctic Cathedral and Tromsø Bridge.

Church
Photo: Jma, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tromsdalen Church or the is a of the Church of Norway in Tromsø Municipality in county, . It is located in the valley on the east side of Tromsø.

Bridge
Photo: Lars Tiede, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a cantilever road bridge in the city of Tromsø which is located in Tromsø Municipality in county, . It crosses the strait between on the mainland and the island of .

Public aquarium
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the world's most northerly aquarium. It is located in , in northern . Rather than a mainly scientific aquarium such as the one in Bergen in the Norwegian midlands, , which opened in May 1998, is designed to be an educational experience, with particular emphasis on displays for children.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tromsdalen and Kvaløysletta.

Suburb
Photo: Frokor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Romssavággi is an urban neighborhood in the city of Tromsø which is in Tromsø Municipality in county, . It is located just to the east of the city centre on the mainland along the coast of the strait.

Village
Photo: MiraculixHB, Public domain.
is an urban neighborhood within the city of Tromsø which is part of Tromsø Municipality in county, . The neighborhood is located on the eastern shore of the island of , about 5 kilometres northwest of the city centre of Tromsø.

Suburb
Photo: GPSLeo, CC0.
is a suburb.

Tromsø

Latitude
69.6516° or 69° 39′ 6″ north
Longitude
18.9559° or 18° 57′ 21″ east
Population
42,800
Open location code
9FXWMX24+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3554636995
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6453316
Wiki­data ID
Q26087
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In Other Languages

From Afar to Zulu—“Tromsø” goes by many names.
  • Afar: “Tromsø”
  • Afrikaans: “Tromso”
  • Afrikaans: “Tromsø”
  • Albanian: “Tromsø”
  • Arabic: “ترومسو”
  • Aragonese: “Tromsø”
  • Armenian: “Թրոմսյո”
  • Arpitan: “Tromsø”
  • Asturian: “Tromsø”
  • Aymara: “Tromsø”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tromsö”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tromsø”
  • Bambara: “Tromsø”
  • Banjar: “Tromsø”
  • Bashkir: “Тромсё”
  • Basque: “Tromsø”
  • Bavarian: “Tromsø”
  • Belarusian: “Тромсё”
  • Belarusian: “Трумсё”
  • Bengali: “ত্রোমুসো”
  • Bishnupriya: “ট্রোমসা”
  • Bislama: “Tromsø”
  • Bosnian: “Tromsø”
  • Brahui: “Tromsø”
  • Breton: “Tromsø”
  • Bulgarian: “Тромсьо”
  • Catalan: “Tromsø”
  • Cebuano: “Tromsø”
  • Central Bikol: “Tromsø”
  • Central Kanuri: “Tromsø”
  • Chamorro: “Tromsø”
  • Chavacano: “Tromsø”
  • Cherokee: “Tromsø”
  • Cheyenne: “Tromsø”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Tromsø”
  • Chinese: “Tromsø”
  • Chinese: “特罗姆瑟”
  • Chinese: “特羅姆瑟”
  • Chinese: “特隆瑟”
  • Choctaw: “Tromsø”
  • Corsican: “Tromsu”
  • Cree: “Tromsø”
  • Creek: “Tromsø”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tromsø”
  • Croatian: “Tromso”
  • Croatian: “Tromsø”
  • Czech: “Tromso”
  • Czech: “Tromsø”
  • Danish: “Tromsø Kommune”
  • Danish: “Tromsø”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tromsø”
  • Dutch: “Tromso”
  • Dutch: “Tromsö”
  • Dutch: “Tromsø”
  • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “Tromsø”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ترومسو”
  • Erzya: “Тромсё ош”
  • Esperanto: “Tromso”
  • Esperanto: “Tromsø”
  • Estonian: “Romsa”
  • Estonian: “Tromsø vald”
  • Estonian: “Tromso”
  • Estonian: “Tromsö”
  • Estonian: “Tromsø”
  • Ewe: “Tromsø”
  • Extremaduran: “Tromsø”
  • Faroese: “Tromsø”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tromsø”
  • Fijian: “Tromsø”
  • Finnish: “Romsa”
  • Finnish: “Tromsö”
  • Finnish: “Tromsø”
  • Finnish: “Tromsøn kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Tromsøn kunta”
  • Finnish: “Tromssa”
  • Finnish: “Tromssan kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Tromssan kunta”
  • French: “Tromso”
  • French: “Tromsö”
  • French: “Tromsø”
  • French: “Tromsoe”
  • Friulian: “Tromsø”
  • Fulah: “Tromsø”
  • Gagauz: “Tromsø”
  • Galician: “Tromsø”
  • Georgian: “ტრომსე”
  • Georgian: “ტრომსიო”
  • German: “Gemeinde Tromsø”
  • German: “Romsa”
  • German: “Tromso”
  • German: “Tromsö”
  • German: “Tromsø”
  • German: “Tromssa”
  • Gheg Albanian: “Tromsø”
  • Gothic: “Tromsø”
  • Greek: “Ρόμσα”
  • Greek: “Τρόμσε”
  • Greek: “Τρόμσο”
  • Greek: “Τρούμσα”
  • Greek: “Τρούμσε”
  • Greek: “Τρούμσο”
  • Greek: “Τρούμσσα”
  • Guarani: “Tromsø”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્રોમ્સો”
  • Haitian: “Tromsø”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tromsø”
  • Hausa: “Tromsø”
  • Hawaiian: “Tromsø”
  • Hebrew: “טרומסה”
  • Hebrew: “טרומסו”
  • Herero: “Tromsø”
  • Hindi: “ट्रोम्सो”
  • Hiri Motu: “Tromsø”
  • Hungarian: “Tromsø község”
  • Icelandic: “Tromso”
  • Icelandic: “Tromsö”
  • Icelandic: “Tromsø”
  • Ido: “Tromsø”
  • Igbo: “Tromsø”
  • Iloko: “Tromsø”
  • Inari Sami: “Tromsa kieldâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Tromssa”
  • Indonesian: “Tromso”
  • Indonesian: “Tromsø”
  • Indonesian: “Tromsoe”
  • Interlingua: “Tromsø”
  • Interlingue: “Tromsø”
  • Inuktitut: “Tromsø”
  • Inupiaq: “Tromsø”
  • Irish: “Tromso”
  • Irish: “Tromsø”
  • Italian: “Romsa”
  • Italian: “Tromso”
  • Italian: “Tromsø”
  • Italian: “Tromsoe”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tromsø”
  • Japanese: “トロムセ”
  • Japanese: “トロムセー”
  • Japanese: “トロムソ”
  • Japanese: “トロムソ郡”
  • Javanese: “Tromsø”
  • Kabyle: “Tromsø”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Tromsø”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tromsø”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ರೊಮ್ಸೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tromsø”
  • Kashubian: “Tromsø”
  • Kazakh: “Tromsø”
  • Kikuyu: “Tromsø”
  • Kinaray-A: “Tromsø”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tromsø”
  • Kirghiz: “Тромсө”
  • Kölsch: “Tromsø”
  • Kongo: “Tromsø”
  • Korean: “트롬쇠”
  • Kuanyama: “Tromsø”
  • Kurdish: “Tromsø”
  • Ladino: “Tromsø”
  • Latgalian: “Tromsø”
  • Latin: “Tromsonda”
  • Latvian: “Tromse”
  • Latvian: “Trumses komūna”
  • Latvian: “Trumses pašvaldība”
  • Laz: “Tromsø”
  • Ligurian: “Tromsø”
  • Limburgan: “Tromsø”
  • Lingala: “Tromsø”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tromsø”
  • Lithuanian: “Tromsė”
  • Lithuanian: “Tromso”
  • Lithuanian: “Trumsė”
  • Lojban: “Tromsø”
  • Lombard: “Tromsø”
  • Low German: “Kommun Tromsø”
  • Low German: “Tromsø”
  • Lower Silesian: “Tromsø”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tromsø”
  • Lozi: “Tromsø”
  • Lushai: “Tromsø”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tromsø”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Tromsø”
  • Macedonian: “Тромсе”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Tromsø”
  • Malay: “Tromso”
  • Malay: “Tromsø”
  • Maltese: “Tromsø”
  • Maori: “Tromsø”
  • Mapudungun: “Tromsø”
  • Marathi: “ट्रोम्सो”
  • Megleno Romanian: “Tromsø”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tromsø”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tromsø”
  • Minangkabau: “Tromsø”
  • Mirandese: “Tromsø”
  • Moksha: “Тромсё”
  • Narom: “Tromsø”
  • Nauru: “Tromsø”
  • Navajo: “Tromsø”
  • Ndonga: “Tromsø”
  • Neapolitan: “Tromsø”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tromsø”
  • Northern Sami: “Romsa”
  • Northern Sami: “Romssa suohkan”
  • Northern Sami: “Tromsa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Romsa suohkan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tromsø kommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tromsø”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Tromsø”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nordens Paris”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tromsø kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tromsø”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tromssa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Trumsøy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Тромсё”
  • Norwegian: “Tromsø”
  • Novial: “Tromsø”
  • Nyanja: “Tromsø”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tromsø”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tromsieg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tromsīeg”
  • Oromo: “Tromsø”
  • Ossetian: “Тромсе”
  • Ossetian: “Тромсё”
  • Pampanga: “Tromsø”
  • Pangasinan: “Tromsø”
  • Pedi: “Tromsø”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Tromsø”
  • Persian: “ترومسا”
  • Persian: “ترومسو”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Tromsø”
  • Picard: “Tromsø”
  • Piemontese: “Tromsø”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tromsø”
  • Plautdietsch: “Tromsø”
  • Polish: “Tromso”
  • Polish: “Tromsø”
  • Polish: “Tromsoe”
  • Portuguese: “Tromso”
  • Portuguese: “Tromsø”
  • Portuguese: “Tronso”
  • Prussian: “Tromsø”
  • Pushto: “ترومسو”
  • Quechua: “Tromsø”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Tromsø”
  • Romanian: “Tromso”
  • Romanian: “Tromsø”
  • Romansh: “Tromsø”
  • Rundi: “Tromsø”
  • Russian: “муниципалитет Тромсё”
  • Russian: “Тромсе”
  • Russian: “Тромсё”
  • Russian: “Тромсо”
  • Russian: “Трумсе”
  • Russian: “Трумсё”
  • Samoan: “Tromsø”
  • Samogitian: “Tromsė”
  • Sango: “Tromsø”
  • Santali: “Tromsø”
  • Sardinian: “Tromsø”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Tromsø”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Tromsø”
  • Scots: “Tromsø”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tromsø”
  • Serbian: “Tromsø”
  • Serbian: “Тромсе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tromse”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tromsø”
  • Seri: “Tromsø”
  • Shona: “Tromsø”
  • Sicilian: “Tromsø”
  • Silesian: “Tromsø”
  • Sinhala: “ට්‍රොම්සෝ”
  • Slovak: “Tromsø”
  • Slovenian: “Tromso”
  • Slovenian: “Tromsø”
  • Somali: “Tromsø”
  • Southern Sami: “Tromsø”
  • Southern Sotho: “Tromsø”
  • Spanish: “Tromso”
  • Spanish: “Tromsø”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Tromsø”
  • Swahili: “Tromsø”
  • Swedish: “Romsa suohkan”
  • Swedish: “Tromsö kommun”
  • Swedish: “Tromsø kommun”
  • Swedish: “Tromsø”
  • Swedish: “Tromssa”
  • Swiss German: “Tromsø”
  • Tachelhit: “Tromsø”
  • Tagalog: “Tromsø”
  • Tahitian: “Tromsø”
  • Tajik: “Tromsø”
  • Tajik: “Тромсё”
  • Tamil: “ட்ரோம்சோ”
  • Tarifit: “Tromsø”
  • Tatar: “Tromsø”
  • Tatar: “Тромсө”
  • Telugu: “ట్రోమ్సో”
  • Tetum: “Tromsø”
  • Thai: “Tromsø”
  • Thai: “ทรุมเซอ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Tromsø”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tromsø”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Tromsø”
  • Tsonga: “Tromsø”
  • Tswana: “Tromsø”
  • Tumbuka: “Tromsø”
  • Turkish: “Tromso”
  • Turkish: “Tromsø”
  • Turkmen: “Tromsø”
  • Turoyo: “Tromsø”
  • Uighur: “Tromsø”
  • Ukrainian: “Тромсе”
  • Ukrainian: “Тромсьо”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tromsø”
  • Urdu: “ترومس”
  • Urdu: “ترومسو”
  • Uzbek: “Tromsø”
  • Venda: “Tromsø”
  • Venetian: “Tromsø”
  • Veps: “Tromsö”
  • Vietnamese: “Tromso”
  • Vietnamese: “Tromsø”
  • Vlaams: “Tromsø”
  • Vlax Romani: “Tromsø”
  • Volapük: “Tromsø”
  • Votic: “Tromsø”
  • Walloon: “Tromsø”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tromsø”
  • Welsh: “Tromsø”
  • Western Frisian: “Tromsø”
  • Western Mari: “Тромсӧ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹرومسو”
  • Wolof: “Tromsø”
  • Wu Chinese: “特罗姆瑟”
  • Xhosa: “Tromsø”
  • Yoruba: “Tromsø”
  • Yue Chinese: “特羅姆瑟”
  • Zeeuws: “Tromsø”
  • Zhuang: “Tromsø”
  • Zulu: “Tromsø”
  • “Tromsė”
  • “Tromsø”

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