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Moss Municipality
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Moss Municipality is a local government area located in Østfold, a county in Norway. It serves as an administrative division responsible for providing public services and governance to residents in that region.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- Mossing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Østfold
- Capital
- Moss
- Population
- 53207
- Area
- 4.21
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Asker
- Official website
- www.moss.kommune.no
- Image
- Moss, Norway.jpg
- Households
- 793
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- category for people born here
- Q9225989
- twinned administrative body
- Karlstad Municipality
- Commons category
- Moss, Norway
- topic's main category
- Category:Moss, Norway
- IPA transcription
- ˈmɔs
- Commons gallery
- Moss, Norway
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Moss, Norway
- language used
- Nynorsk
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
Moss is a coastal town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Moss. The city of Moss was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt) and City in 1720. The rural municipality of Jeløy was merged with the city on 1 July 1943. The former municipality of Rygge was merged into it on 1 January 2020.
Its administrative district covers areas east of the town, such as the island of Dillingøy in the lake Vansjø. Parts of the town are located on the peninsula of Jeløy. The city of Moss has 30,723 inhabitants (2012).
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