Larvik

Larvik is a city and municipality in Vestfold County, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the metropolis of Larvik. The municipality of Larvik has about 46,364 population. Larvik covers 530 km², which makes it the largest municipality in Vestfold County with the aid of length. The municipality has a a hundred and ten km coastline, only shorter than that of neighboring Sandefjord. The city executed marketplace town status in 1671. Larvik turned into installed as a municipality on 1 January 1838 The city of Stavern, and the rural municipalities of Brunlanes, Hedrum, and Tjolling have been forcefully merged into the municipality of Larvik on 1 January 1988.

On 1 January 2018, neighboring Lardal was merged into Larvik as part of a nationwide municipal reform. After the merge, Larvik is the biggest municipality in Vestfold County with the aid of region, and the second one-maximum populous municipality within the county. Larvik is known as the hometown of Thor Heyerdahl. It is likewise domestic to Bokeskogen, the northernmost beech tree forest inside the international. It is also home of Norway's best natural mineral water spring, Farriskilden. Farris Bad has been described as one of the exceptional spas in Europe. It has the largest spa branch in Scandinavia.