Fredrikstad

Fredrikstad is a municipality in Ostfold, with eighty 977 population. It is as a result Ostfold's biggest, eastern Norway's 2nd largest city and Norway's 7th largest municipality measured in phrases of the variety of inhabitants. Fredrikstad is frequently characterized as Norway's first Renaissance city see the Renaissance, with quarters bounded through streets constructed in a everyday pattern. The place of Fredrikstad municipality is 290 square kilometers. It borders in the north to Rade, inside the east to Sarpsborg and in the south to Hvaler.

The town community Fredrikstad and the urban network Sarpsborg are often taken into consideration inside the statistical context because the village and the double city Fredrikstad, Sarpsborg, which has 112,464 population as of one January 2018. 66 108 of those live in the part of Fredrikstad municipality that is a city location. The city of Fredrikstad is located at Glommas outlet. Fredrikstad become based in 1567 with the aid of King Frederik II of Denmark and Norway. It befell at some point of the Nordic Seven Year War. During this warfare between Denmark-Norway and Sweden, the Swedes burned Sarpsborg, which King Olav the saint had based in 1016.