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Asker
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Akershus
- Administrative centre
- Asker
- Mayor 2007
- Lene Conradi ( H )
- Total
- 101 km (39 sq mi)
- Land
- 97 km (37 sq mi)
- Rank
- # 385 in Norway
- Density
- 585/km (1,520/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +15.7%
- Demonym
- Askerbøring
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-0220
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Asker (Norwegian: Asker), also called Asker proper (Askerbygda or gamle Asker in Norwegian), is a district and former municipality in Akershus, Norway, located approximately 20km southwest of Oslo. From 2020 it is part of the larger administrative municipality Asker (also known as Greater Asker) together with the traditional Buskerud districts Røyken and Hurum; Asker constitutes the northern fourth and is part of the Greater Oslo Region. The administrative center was the town of Asker, which remains so for the new larger municipality. Asker was established as a parish in the Middle Ages and as a municipality on 1 January 1838.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.