The municipality Lom in the county of Oppland, Norway, had 2,519 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. It was the birthplace of the novelist Knut Hamsun, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lom is also famous for having one of the few remaining stave churches in Norway, and is the "gateway" to the Jotunheimen National Park, and containing the two highest peaks in Norway, Galdhøpiggen and Glittertind.

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Lom is also a town in Bulgaria.