Åmot Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Østerdalen
- Established
- 1 January 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Rena
- Mayor 2019
- Ole Erik Hørstad ( H )
- Total
- 1,339.91 km (517.34 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,293.32 km (499.35 sq mi)
- Water
- 46.59 km (17.99 sq mi) 3.5%
- Rank
- # 72 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,057.31 m (3,468.9 ft)
- Density
- 3.1/km (8.0/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −3.7%
- Demonym
- Åmoting
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1838
- Location
- Rena, Norway
- Status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
Åmot 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 Rena. Other villages in the municipality include Åsta, Osneset, and Snippen.
The 1,340-square-kilometre (520 sq mi) municipality is the 72nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Åmot is the 200th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,205. The municipality's population density is 3.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (8.0/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 3.7% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Åmot Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.