Stange Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Hedmarken
- Established
- 1 January 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Stangebyen
- Mayor 2022
- Bjarne Christiansen ( Ap )
- Total
- 724.27 km (279.64 sq mi)
- Land
- 640.99 km (247.49 sq mi)
- Water
- 83.28 km (32.15 sq mi) 11.5%
- Rank
- # 157 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 642.63 m (2,108.4 ft)
- Density
- 29.9/km (77/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +9.5%
- Demonym
- Stangesokning
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Stange kommune - Forsiden
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Encyclopedic overview
Stange is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebyen. Other villages include Bekkelaget, Espa, Bottenfjellet, Ilseng, Ottestad, Sandvika, Sinnerud, Starhellinga, Tangen, and Romedal.
The 724-square-kilometre (280 sq mi) municipality is the 157th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Stange Municipality is the 60th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 21,691. The municipality's population density is 29.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (76/sq mi) and its population has increased by 9.5% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stange Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.