Vikersund
Vikersund is a town of 3,232 inhabitants in the municipality capital of Modum, in the county of Buskerud, Norway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,240 residents
- Description: settlement in Modum Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Vikesund”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vikersund Station and Heggen kyrkje.
Vikersund Station
Railway station
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Vikersund Station is a railway station located at the village of Vikersund in Modum, Norway. At Vikersund there is a junction with the Randsfjorden Line on which Vy Tog operates some express trains between Bergen and Oslo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Geithus.
Geithus
Village
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Geithus is a village in Modum municipality of Buskerud, Norway. It is situated between the villages of Åmot and Vikersund. Geithus is located where the southwestern arm of Tyrifjorden ends and drains into Drammenselva. Geithus is situated 4 km south of Vikersund.
Vikersund
- Categories: urban area in Norway and locality
- Location: Modum, Buskerud, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.9661° or 59° 57′ 58″ northLongitude
9.9949° or 9° 59′ 42″ eastPopulation
3,240Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO VKSOpen location code
9FFFXX8V+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 540399161OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Swedish—“Vikersund” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Vikersund”
- Bulgarian: “Викерсунд”
- Catalan: “Vikersund”
- Cebuano: “Vikersund”
- Chinese: “维克松”
- Czech: “Vikersund”
- Danish: “Vikersund”
- Dutch: “Vikersund”
- Estonian: “Vikersund”
- Finnish: “Vikersund”
- French: “Vikersund”
- German: “Vikersund”
- Greek: “Βίκερσουντ”
- Interlingue: “Vikersund”
- Italian: “Vikersund”
- Japanese: “ヴィケルスン”
- Javanese: “Vikersund”
- Malay: “Vikersund”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vikersund”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vikersund”
- Norwegian: “Vikersund”
- Polish: “Vikersund”
- Portuguese: “Vikersund”
- Romanian: “Vikersund”
- Russian: “Викерсунд”
- Russian: “Викерсунн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vikersund”
- Slovenian: “Vikersund”
- Spanish: “Vikersund”
- Swedish: “Vikersund”
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