Tynset Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Østerdalen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Tynset
- Mayor 2015
- Merete Myhre Moen ( Sp )
- Total
- 1,880.26 km (725.97 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,822.46 km (703.66 sq mi)
- Water
- 57.80 km (22.32 sq mi) 3.1%
- Rank
- # 43 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,653.26 m (5,424.1 ft)
- Density
- 3/km (7.8/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +2.6%
- Demonym
- Tynseting
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- tynseting
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Innlandet
- Capital
- Tynset
- Population
- 5762
- Area
- 0.98
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Oppdal Municipality
- Official website
- www.tynset.kommune.no
- Image
- Tynset fra bygda.jpg
- Households
- 103
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- Commons category
- Tynset
- topic's main category
- Category:Tynset
- twinned administrative body
- Ikaalinen
- language used
- Nynorsk
- P12749
- Sandra Rauch
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Encyclopedic overview
Tynset is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Tynset. Some of the notable villages in Tynset include Fådalen, Fåset, Kvikne, Telneset, Tylldalen, and Yset.
The 1,880-square-kilometre (730 sq mi) municipality is the 43rd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Tynset Municipality is the 168th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 5,722. The municipality's population density is 3 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.8/sq mi) and its population has increased by 2.6% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tynset Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.