Eidskog Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Vinger / Glåmdal
- Established
- 1 Jan 1864
- Preceded by
- Vinger Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Skotterud
- Mayor 2015
- Kamilla Thue ( Ap )
- Total
- 640.39 km (247.26 sq mi)
- Land
- 603.37 km (232.96 sq mi)
- Water
- 37.02 km (14.29 sq mi) 5.8%
- Rank
- # 181 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 435 m (1,427 ft)
- Density
- 9.5/km (25/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −3.4%
- Demonym
- Eidskoging
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1864
- Location
- Skotterud, Norway
- Status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
Eidskog is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Vinger. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Skotterud. Other villages in the municipality include Magnor, Matrand, and Åbogen.
The 640-square-kilometre (250 sq mi) municipality is the 181st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Eidskog Municipality is the 162nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 6,059. The municipality's population density is 9.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (25/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 3.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eidskog Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.