Lillehammer

Lillehammer is a metropolis and municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is a part of the traditional vicinity of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the metropolis of Lillehammer. As of 2018, the populace of the city of Lillehammer come to be 28 034. The city centre is a overdue nineteenth-century concentration of wood homes, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern a part of lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen, surrounded with the resource of mountains. Lillehammer hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics and 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.

Before Oslo's withdrawal from attention, it became covered as a part of a bid to host activities in the 2022 Winter Olympics if Oslo have been to win the rights to hold the Games. The municipality changed into named after the vintage Hamar farm, for the cause that first church changed into built there. The name is same with the word hamarr. To distinguish it from the close by city and bishopric, every referred to as Hamar, it started out out to be called "little Hamar": Lilþlæ Hamar and Litlihamarr, and sooner or later Lillehammer. It is also referred to inside the Old Norse sagas as Litlikaupangr.