Local time
Mon, 8:53 PM GMT+2Europe/OsloCityCapital
Oslo
59.92° N, 10.75° E
- Population
- 835,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 20
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 20 cities of Norway in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Norway, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1048
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 23 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Oslo Municipality
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Europe/Oslo
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Oslo, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Oslo have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
An Old Norwegian word, "os", may explain the name; it means "estuary" and refers to the city's location on a fjord. Alternatively, the name may come from "As", a Scandinavian god, and "Lo", a nearby river.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person