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Top cities in Norway, page 1, based on popularity among TravBuddy members.
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Oslo
#1 most popular location
Painfully pricey and wonderfully chilled out, Norwegian capital Oslo is surrounded by awe-inspiring nature and home to an enviable range of museums. Spend your morning strolling down the stee…
1,099travelers
216reviews
174blogs
Bergen
#2 most popular location
Bergen came to prominence as the heart of the busy Norwegian fishing trade, though don’t let that put you off: for the tourist it offers so much more. For a start, the city centre is so old…
313travelers
84reviews
63blogs
Stavanger
#3 most popular location
Stavanger is one of the largest cities in Norway with around 140.000 people.
It still has very small town feel to it, as the city center is fairly small, with old white wooden houses and nar…
180travelers
56reviews
14blogs
Trondheim
#4 most popular location
One of the largest and most important cities in Norway, Trondheim is a major economical center, with some of the largest technical and medical research facilities in Norway, with both the NTN…
156travelers
34reviews
51blogs
Tromso
#5 most popular location
Between the island landscape, fjords and mountain peaks, you find Tromsø – Gateway to the Arctic and capital of Northern Norway. As far back as a century ago, visitors were surprised to fi…
82travelers
28reviews
23blogs
Lillehammer
#6 most popular location
Lillehammer is a small town with 25.689 inhabitants (2007) lying just 180 km north of Oslo. Lillehammer is most famous for hosting the 1994 winter Olympics which has been described as the bes…
15travelers
3reviews
9blogs
Kristiansand
#7 most popular location
Kristiansand is known as a good summer place, with nice weather, appearantly Norway's only palm trees, and a great music festival.
Kristiansand is a town that is surrounded by nature. Ther…
51travelers
9reviews
5blogs
Bodo
#9 most popular location
Bodø is a city in the north of Norway in the county Nordland. It has 45000 inhabitants and is the second largest city in the north of Norway.
Bodø has a lot of wind, but the nature suroun…
33travelers
7reviews
10blogs
Voss
#12 most popular location
Voss , located on the around 100km from Bergen and 400km from Oslo on the Bergen-Oslo Railway is a scenic little town with good opportunities to get away from the city-hopping. Don't miss Eks…
11travelers
1reviews
3blogs
Roros
#17 most popular location
The town of Røros is one of the oldest towns of wooden buildings in Europe, and also one of the few mining towns in the world that has been found worthy of a place on UNESCO’s World Herita…
1travelers
8reviews
8blogs
Flam
#19 most popular location
Flam is a little town in the province of 'Sogn og Fjordane' in Norway. Flam has it own harbour because it is located at the Aurlandsfjord (an arm of the Sognefjord).
The village is a popu…
3travelers
2reviews
20blogs
Sandnes
#20 most popular location
Sandnes is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, located geographically right at the heart of the Stavanger region and Northern Jæren and in close proximity to the airport and ferry term…
27travelers
2reviews
2blogs
Nordkapp
#23 most popular location
The Nordkapp (or North cape) is the most Northern part of Europe. This cape lies directly to the Barents Sea and is part of the province of Finnmark in Norway.
The cape is approximately 3…
14travelers
1reviews
Geiranger
#25 most popular location
Geiranger is small village in the province of 'Møre og Romsdal' in Norway. It lies on the Geirangerfjord, this fjord has been placed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the are of Geirang…
6travelers
3reviews
12blogs
Halden
#29 most popular location
Halden is an old town. It's a small city, located at the banks of the Oslo fjord. Home of the Fredriksten Fortress. This Norwegian fortress was constructed in the 17th century (1661) as a rep…
8travelers
2reviews
1blogs
Tromsø
#32 most popular location
It is the largest city and the largest urban area in Northern Norway, and the second largest city and urban area north of the Arctic Circle in Sápmi (following Murmansk). Most of Tromsø, in…
33travelers
4reviews
7blogs
Sandefjord
#33 most popular location
The name originally belonged to the fjord (now the Sandefjordsfjord). The first element is the genitive case of the name of the parish and former municipality Sandar. The coat-of-arms is from…
15travelers
2reviews
4blogs
Gjovik
#39 most popular location
Gjovik is the city were I grew up. Located by the banks of Lake Mjosa (the biggest lake in Norway) and is called the White city by Mjosa. It's also home to the steamboat Skibladner. The only …
5travelers
1reviews
2blogs
Laerdal
#40 most popular location
Laerdal is situated on the farest arm from the open sea of the Sognefjord. it is accessible by ferry or by bus from Auerland over the 'Snow Road.' Whereas snow can usually be seen here, even …
4blogs
Sola
#42 most popular location
Norways best beaches! This is the place to go for a surf :D
4travelers
2reviews
Hamar
#44 most popular location
Hamar is a small city with 30.000 inhabitants living on the shores of Mjøsa.
Hamar is known for:
The ruins from the old cathedral
The Norwegian national railway museum
Skiblander- The …
16travelers
1reviews
1blogs
Tonsberg
#53 most popular location
Tønsberg is situated in the south west of Norway and it is in the area of Vestfold community, Neighbour with Larvik, Sandefjord, Horten, Holmestrand and Tjøme.
It is the oldest city in N…
22travelers
2blogs
Andenes
#56 most popular location
Andenes is situated on the Nortern side of the Island of Andoy. It is a small village which mainly gets its income out of tourism. Andenes is famous for its whale safari.
Andenes can be a…
1travelers
2reviews
1blogs
Preikestolen
#58 most popular location
Preikstolen is a cliff in Forsand Norway. It is 604 metres high and it is one of the most visited natural attraction in Norway.
10travelers
5blogs
Moss
#65 most popular location
A small town situated by the sea. It's divided in 2 and conected with a bridge. One part is actually an island, called Jeloy. Jeoy was merged with the city of Moss July 1, 1943. Its administr…
13travelers
1blogs
Trollstigen
#69 most popular location
Trollstigen ("The Troll Ladder") is a famous mountain road 20 kilometers south of the small city of Åndalsnes in Southern Norway. It is part of the "riksvei 63". Eleven hairpin bends lead up…
1travelers
2reviews
3blogs
Lillestrøm
#72 most popular location
Lillestrøm is a city situated approximitly 15min (or ca.18km)north of Oslo. It earned it's status as a city in 1997, and has grown bigger for every year since then.
It has lots of places to…
11travelers
6reviews
Skien
#75 most popular location
Skien is one of the oldest citys in Norway. Over the last 15 years the city center has changed a lot. The riverfront in the city has been totally rebuildt and is now full of bars, coffeshop…
21travelers
1blogs
Raufoss
#81 most popular location
20 mins south of Gjovik. It's a real small town, but it's home to one of the best known factories in Norway. They used to make ammo here, but that's long gone. Now they make carbumpers and a …
4travelers
2reviews
8blogs
Kirkenes
#83 most popular location
Kirkenes lies in the very north and east of Norway in the provence Finnamrk and lies about 400km (240 miles) northern of the artic circle.. It has about 6000 inhabitants. The russian border i…
1travelers
1reviews
3blogs
Levanger
#88 most popular location
Levanger is a municipality and town in the county of Nord-Trøndelag which is in the middle of Norway. It approimately 18,300 inhabitants and has an area on a total of 645 km².
Random f…
5travelers
1blogs
Mo i Rana
#96 most popular location
The city under the arctic circle is fairly small, but the area, Rana ,has a lot to offer. 24 hour daylight in summer, lots of nature for any enthusiast, whether it's hiking or fishing that in…
5blogs
Dombas
#99 most popular location
There is not a lot of Dombås but its significance lies not in what it is - a very small village - but in where it is. The road or railway line from Oslo to Dombås is quite scenic but not ou…
1reviews
1blogs