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Halden
Sign in to saveHalden (), between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, Rakkestad to the north and Aremark to the east, as well as the Swedish municipalities Strömstad, Tanum and Dals-Ed respectively to the southwest, south and southeast.
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Halden is a municipality in Norway. The administrative entity, known as Halden Kommune, has been active since its establishment in 2006. It is classified as a government type and is located in the city of Halden.
The municipality covers an area of 661.43 square units. It has a population of 32,082 people and contains 14,660 households. The official website for the municipality is halden.kommune.no.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Kommune.name
- Halden
- Kommune.idnumber
- 3101
- Kommune.image_skyline
- Blick auf Halden 2.JPG
- Kommune.image_caption
- Halden as seen from the Fredriksten fortress in mid-July 2012
- Kommune.county
- Østfold
- Kommune.capital
- Halden
- Kommune.demonym
- Haldenser/Haldensar
- Kommune.language
- Bokmål
- Kommune.coatofarms
- Halden komm.svg
- Kommune.munwebpage
- http://www.halden.kommune.no/
- Kommune.mayor
- Fredrik Holm
- Kommune.mayor_party
- H
- Kommune.mayor_as_of
- 2023
- Kommune.area_rank
- 173
- Kommune.area_total_km2
- 642
- Kommune.area_land_km2
- 596
- Kommune.area_water_percent
- 0.20
- Kommune.population_as_of
- 2020
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 2006
- Location
- Halden, Norway
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.457864.c · ISNI 0000 0004 0545 8491
Official website
Halden kommune
halden.kommune.no →Link to the official site · 8,059 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Official name
- Фрэдрыксхальд
- Demonym
- haldensar
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Østfold
- Capital
- Halden
- Population
- 32082
- Area
- 46.96
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Dals-Ed Municipality
- Official website
- www.halden.kommune.no
- Image
- Halden Fra Festningen.jpg
- Households
- 926
Show 10 more facts
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- category for people born here
- Q18355328
- Commons category
- Halden
- topic's main category
- Category:Halden
- twinned administrative body
- Skövde Municipality
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Halden
- language used
- Bokmål
- native label
- Halden
- short name
- Фредриксхалд
- P12749
- Porte Noire
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- History
- Politics
- Economy
- Rød Herregård
- Notable sights
- Nature
- Gjellestad ship burial
- Culture
- Sports
- Halden's prison
- Notable residents
- Public Service & public thinking
- The Arts
- Sport
- Twin towns – sister cities
- References
- External links
Halden (), between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, Rakkestad to the north and Aremark to the east, as well as the Swedish municipalities Strömstad, Tanum and Dals-Ed respectively to the southwest, south and southeast.
The seat of the municipality, Halden is a border town located at the mouth of the Tista river on the Iddefjord, the southernmost border crossing between Norway and Sweden. The town of Halden is located about south of Oslo, north of Gothenburg, and west of the border crossing at Svinesund.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Halden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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