What is the population of Rjukan, Telemark?

Rjukan has a population of approximately 3,012 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Rjukan, Telemark located?

Rjukan is located in Telemark, Norway, at approximate coordinates 59.8787°, 8.5942°.

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Rjukan

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Rjukan

Total population

3,012

Air quality index

27Good

Elevation296 m

Land area2.57 km²

WeatherAvg high 48.8°F

Coordinates59.88°, 8.59°

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Elevation

296 m

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2.57 km²

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Rjukan is a town in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The town is also the administrative centre of Tinn Municipality. The town is located in the Vestfjorddalen valley between the lakes Møsvatn and Tinnsjå. The municipal council of Tinn declared town status for Rjukan in 1996. The town is located about ten kilometres to the west of the village of Miland and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the northwest of the village of Tuddal.

Rjukan is a small Norwegian industrial town of roughly 3,000 people, tucked into the narrow Vestfjorddalen valley in Telemark county between Lake Møsvatn and Lake Tinnsjå. The steep 1,800-metre walls of Gaustatoppen and the surrounding peaks cast the town into shadow for almost six months of the year — from late September until mid-March the valley floor receives no direct sunlight at all. After more than a century of living without winter sun, the town inaugurated the "Solspeilet" (Sun Mirror) in 2013: three 17-square-metre computer-controlled heliostats mounted 450 metres up the mountainside that track the sun and bounce a 600-square-metre patch of daylight onto Rjukan's main square. The idea was first proposed by hydroelectric pioneer Sam Eyde in 1913, but the engineering only became practical a century later. Rjukan is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Rjukan–Notodden Industrial Heritage Site, recognised for the hydroelectric and heavy-water plants built here by Norsk Hydro — the same Vemork plant famously sabotaged by Norwegian commandos in 1943 to derail Nazi Germany's atomic-bomb programme.

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In 1906, the area which would become Rjukan consisted of only a few farmsteads, then called Saaheim, when Norsk Hydro began planning saltpeter (fertilizer) production in the area using the newly developed Birkeland–Eyde process. Rjukan was chosen because the Rjukan Falls, with a longest single fall, provided easy means of generating the large amounts of electricity that was required. The Vemork hydroelectric power plant was built between 1907 and 1911, and was at the time the world's largest hydroelectric power plant. A similar power plant was finished in Såheim in 1915. The power plants had a combined cost of more than , the equivalent of two annual national budgets at the time. With the factories, many houses for the factory workers also had to be built, in addition to a train station and a town hall. The town formally changed its name to Rjukan, and in 1920 reached a population of 8,350. After 1960, most of Norsk Hydro's saltpeter production in Rjukan was transferred to factories at Herøya in Porsgrunn.

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