Vestfold
Vestfold is a county in East Norway. The county administration is in Tønsberg. Vestfold is located west of the Oslo Fjord, as the name indicates. It includes many smaller, but well-known towns in Norway, such as Larvik, Sandefjord, Tønsberg and Horten.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tønsberg and Larvik.
Tønsberg
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Tønsberg is a town in Vestfold county. It is the oldest town in Norway. The town has about 56,000 inhabitants. Tønsberg is also surrounded by some of the county's major tourist attractions, including old viking graves and museums.
Larvik
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Larvik is a city in Vestfold. Larvik is the southernmost larger city in Vestfold, with about 24,000 inhabitants. Larvik city is the administrative centre of Larvik municipality, which is home to some other larger villages, including Stavern and Helgeroa, some of which are just minutes away with bus.
Sandefjord
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Sandefjord is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Vestfold. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sandefjord.
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Horten
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Horten is a city in Vestfold, Norway. Mostly a quick stopover for travellers crossing the Oslofjord by ferry between here and Moss…
Holmestrand
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Holmestrand is a city in Vestfold, Norway. Holmestrand in Norwegian literally means small island by the beach. Holmestrand is a nice town with a charming harbour.
Stokke
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Stokke is a town and coastal municipality between the town of Tønsberg and the town of Sandefjord in Vestfold, Norway.
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Vestfold
- Type: county of Norway with 236,000 residents
- Description: Norwegian county
- Also known as: “Vestfold county” and “Vestfold Fylke”
- Neighbors: Buskerud and Telemark
- Category: former county of Norway
- Location: East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vestfold” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vestfold”
- Albanian: “Vestfold”
- Arabic: “فستفولد”
- Aragonese: “Vestfold”
- Armenian: “Վեստֆոլ”
- Asturian: “Vestfold”
- Azerbaijani: “Vestfoll”
- Basque: “Vestfold”
- Belarusian: “Вестфал”
- Belarusian: “Вэстфол”
- Bengali: “ভেস্টফোল্ড”
- Bishnupriya: “বেস্টফোল্ড”
- Bosnian: “Vestfold”
- Breton: “Vestfold”
- Bulgarian: “Вестфол”
- Catalan: “Vestfold”
- Cebuano: “Vestfold fylke”
- Chinese: “Vestfold”
- Chinese: “西福尔”
- Chinese: “西福尔郡”
- Chinese: “西福爾”
- Chinese: “西福爾郡”
- Cornish: “Vestfold”
- Croatian: “Vestfold”
- Czech: “Vestfold”
- Danish: “Vestfold”
- Dutch: “Vestfold”
- Esperanto: “Vestfold”
- Estonian: “Vestfold”
- Estonian: “Vestfoldi maakond”
- Faroese: “Vestfold fylke”
- Faroese: “Vestfold fylki”
- Finnish: “Vestfold”
- Finnish: “Vestfoldin lääni”
- French: “Comté de Vestfold”
- French: “Vestfold”
- Georgian: “ვესტფოლდი”
- German: “Vestfold”
- Greek: “Βέστφολντ”
- Gujarati: “વેસ્ટફોલ્ડ”
- Hebrew: “וסטפול”
- Hebrew: “וסטפולד”
- Hindi: “वेस्टफ़ोल्ड”
- Hungarian: “Vestfold megye”
- Icelandic: “Vestfold”
- Indonesian: “Vestfold”
- Italian: “Vestfold”
- Japanese: “ヴェストフォル県”
- Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ಫೋಲ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “베스트폴주”
- Latin: “Foldia occidentalis”
- Latin: “Vestfoldia”
- Latvian: “Vestfolda”
- Latvian: “Vestfolla”
- Limburgan: “Vestfold”
- Lithuanian: “Vestfoldas”
- Low German: “Amt Vestfold”
- Macedonian: “Вестфол”
- Malay: “Vestfold”
- Maltese: “Vestfold”
- Marathi: “वेस्टफॉल्ड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vestfold”
- Moksha: “Вэстфол”
- Northern Sami: “Vestfolda fylka”
- Northern Sami: “Vestfoldda fylka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestfold fylke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestfold”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestfold fylke”
- Norwegian: “Vestfold”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vestfold”
- Ossetian: “Вестфолл”
- Persian: “وستفولد”
- Polish: “Vestfold”
- Portuguese: “Vestfold”
- Pushto: “وستفولډ”
- Romanian: “Vestfold”
- Russian: “Вестфолл”
- Samogitian: “Vestfuolds”
- Scots: “Vestfold”
- Serbian: “Вестфолд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vestfold”
- Sinhala: “වෙස්ට්ෆෝල්ඩ්”
- Slovak: “Vestfold”
- Slovenian: “Vestfold”
- South Azerbaijani: “وستفولد”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Vestfold”
- Spanish: “Vestfold”
- Swahili: “Vestfold”
- Swedish: “Vestfold fylke”
- Swedish: “Vestfold”
- Tamil: “வெஸ்டபோல்டு”
- Telugu: “వెస్ట్ఫోల్డ్”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลเว็สต์ฟ็อล”
- Turkish: “Vestfold”
- Ukrainian: “Вестфолл”
- Urdu: “ویستفول”
- Vietnamese: “Vestfold”
- Vlaams: “Vestfold”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vestfold”
- Western Panjabi: “ویسٹفولڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “西福尔”
- Wu Chinese: “西福尔郡”
- Yue Chinese: “西福爾”
- “Vestfuolds”
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