Sandefjord

Sandefjord is a Norwegian city and the maximum populous municipality in Vestfold County, Norway. The workplace of the municipality is the town of Sandefjord. The municipality of Sandefjord changed into installed on January 1, 1838. The municipality of Sandar comes to be merged into Sandefjord on January 1, 1969. On January 1, 2017, rural municipalities of Andebu and Stokke have been merged into Sandefjord as a part of a country wide municipal reform. The city is concept for its wealthy Viking records and the wealthy whaling enterprise, which made Sandefjord the richest town in Norway.

Today it has built up the 1/3-largest merchant fleet in Norway. It is domestic to Europe's exceptional museum committed to whaling, and is domestic to Gokstad Mound in which the ninth century Gokstad Ship became positioned. Sandefjord has severa nicknames, along with the Viking- or Whaling Capital of Norway. The metropolis is likewise called the "whaling capital of the arena. It has additionally been dubbed the "Bathing City Badebyen because of its many seashores and previous resort spas. It continues to be taken into consideration a lodge city due to excessive numbers of site visitors within the path of summer time months.