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Oppdal Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- District
- Dovre Region
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Oppdal
- Mayor 2023
- Elisabeth Hals ( V )
- Total
- 2,274.11 km (878.04 sq mi)
- Land
- 2,201.39 km (849.96 sq mi)
- Water
- 72.72 km (28.08 sq mi) 3.2%
- Rank
- # 24 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,983.27 m (6,506.8 ft)
- Density
- 3.2/km (8.3/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +8.4%
- Demonym
- Oppdaling
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Oppdal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Dovre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Oppdal. Other villages in the municipality include Lønset, Vognillan, Fagerhaugen, and Holan. The Oppdal Airport, Fagerhaug is located in the northeastern part of the municipality.
The 2,274-square-kilometre (878 sq mi) municipality is the 24th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Oppdal Municipality is the 139th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 7,389. The municipality's population density is 3.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (8.3/sq mi) and its population has increased by 8.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oppdal Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.