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==Geography== Buskerud extended from [[Hurum]] at the [[Oslofjord]] to the Halling mountains and [[Hardanger]]. The county was conventionally divided into traditional districts. These were [[Hallingdal]], [[Numedal]], [[Ringerike (traditional district)|Ringerike]], Lower Buskerud, which was originally part of [[Vestfold]], and Western [[Vingulmark]]. Hallingdal consisted of [[Flå]], [[Nes, Buskerud|Nes]], [[Gol, Norway|Gol]], [[Hemsedal]], [[Ål]] and [[Hol, Norway|Hol]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://snl.no/Hallingdal|title= Hallingdal |publisher= Store norske leksikon|author= Geir Thorsnæs|access-date= February 5, 2016}}</ref> [[Numedal]] consisted of [[Flesberg]], [[Rollag]] and [[Nore og Uvdal]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://snl.no/Numedal|title=Numedal |publisher= Store norske leksikon|author= Geir Thorsnæs|access-date= February 5, 2016}}</ref> [[Ringerike (traditional district)|Ringerike]] consisted of [[Hole, Norway|Hole]], [[Krødsherad]], [[Modum]], [[Ringerike (municipality)|Ringerike]] and [[Sigdal]]. Western Vingulmark consisted of [[Hurum]] and [[Røyken]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://snl.no/Vestfold%2Fgammelt_navn|title= Vestfold – gammelt navn|publisher= Store norske leksikon|author= Per G. Norseng|access-date= February 5, 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161018180736/https://snl.no/Vestfold/gammelt_navn|archive-date= October 18, 2016|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://snl.no/Vingulmark|title= Vingulmark |publisher=Store norske leksikon|author= Svein Askheim|access-date= February 5, 2016}}</ref> Lower Buskerud consisted of [[Drammen]], [[Hurum]], [[Kongsberg]], [[Lier, Norway|Lier]], [[Nedre Eiker]], [[Røyken]] and [[Øvre Eiker]]. The district was merged from parts that belonged to [[Vestfold#History|Vestfold]] and [[Vingulmark]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Munch|first=Peter Andreas|title=Historisk-geographisk beskrivelse over kongeriget Norge (Noregsveldi) i middelalderen|publisher=W. Gram|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historiskgeogra00muncgoog/page/n41 5]–7|year=1849|url=https://archive.org/details/historiskgeogra00muncgoog}}</ref> Buskerud's western part was a mountainous plateau with forested valleys and high, grassy pastures; its eastern part contains a lowland basin with many lakes and streams. [[Tyrifjorden]] and [[Krøderen (lake)|Krøderen]] were the biggest lakes. [[Numedalslågen]], the third longest river in Norway, starting in [[Hordaland]], ran through Buskerud unto Vestfold where it reached the sea, while river [[Begna (river)|Begna]] sweeps into lake [[Sperillen]]. ===Mountains=== *[[Haukefjellet]] *[[Hestebottnuten]] *[[Julsennuten]] *[[Kyrkjebønosi]] *[[Nystølsvarden]] *[[Øljunuten]] *[[Raggsteinnuten]] *[[Storebottnosi]] *[[Storegrønut]] *[[Tyrvlesnuten]] *[[Vargebreen]]
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