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Nobody actually knows, but some people think that "Os" means a height or a name of an old God, and "lo" might mean something similar to a field or plain. So Oslo can mean something like "the field under the height" or "The God's field" or something similar to that. But then again, nobody really knows.

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It is unknown, but some argue that it is put together from two old norwegian words; OS - river delta and LO - possibly an old name for one of the rivers running thru Oslo. This is however much debated

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