Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Buskerud
- District
- Hallingdal
- Administrative centre
- Nesbyen
- Mayor 2015
- Tore Haraldset ( LL )
- Total
- 810 km (310 sq mi)
- Land
- 773 km (298 sq mi)
- Rank
- # 135 in Norway
- Density
- 4/km (10/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +1.6%
- Demonym
- Nesning
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-3322
- Website
- Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- nesning
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Buskerud
- Capital
- Nesbyen
- Population
- 3234
- Area
- 38.08
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Ål
- Official website
- www.nes-bu.kommune.no
- Image
- Nesbyen, Nes.jpg
- Households
- 76
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- Category:Nesbyen
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- Nesbyen
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- Bokmål
- name
- Nesbyen
- different from
- Nesbyen
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Encyclopedic overview
Nesbyen is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Nesbyen.
The parish of Næs was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The area of Flå was separated from Nes on 1 January 1905 to become a separate municipality. The name was changed from Nes to Nesbyen in 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nesbyen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.