Alvdal Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Østerdalen
- Preceded by
- Tynset Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Alvdal
- Mayor 2019
- Mona Murud ( Sp )
- Total
- 942.15 km (363.77 sq mi)
- Land
- 919.08 km (354.86 sq mi)
- Water
- 23.07 km (8.91 sq mi) 2.4%
- Rank
- # 124 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,826.88 m (5,993.7 ft)
- Density
- 2.7/km (7.0/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +3.9%
- Demonym
- Alvdøl
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-3428
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- vetlelvdøl
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Innlandet
- Capital
- Alvdal
- Population
- 2492
- Area
- 0.33
- Elevation
- 505.8
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Folldal Municipality
- Highest point
- Storsølnkletten
- Official website
- www.alvdal.kommune.no
- Image
- Alvdal1.jpg
- Households
- 47
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- Commons category
- Alvdal
- topic's main category
- Category:Alvdal Municipality
- separated from
- Tynset Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1864-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Alvdal
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Encyclopedic overview
Alvdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Alvdal. Other villages include Barkald, Plassmoen, and Strømmen. The municipality is located to the south of Tynset Municipality, north and west of Rendalen Municipality, north of Stor-Elvdal Municipality, and east of Folldal Municipality. The Rørosbane railway and the Norwegian National Road 3 both pass through Alvdal.
The 942-square-kilometre (364 sq mi) municipality is the 124th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Alvdal Municipality is the 254th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,509. The municipality's population density is 2.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.0/sq mi) and its population has increased by 3.9% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alvdal Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.