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Dovre Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Gudbrandsdalen
- Preceded by
- Lesja Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Dovre
- Mayor 2023
- Magne Vorkinn (( Sp ))
- Total
- 1,364.38 km (526.79 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,349.19 km (520.93 sq mi)
- Water
- 15.19 km (5.86 sq mi) 1.1%
- Rank
- # 69 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 2,287.1 m (7,504 ft)
- Density
- 1.8/km (4.7/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −7.4%
- Demonym
- Dovring
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-3431
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- dovring
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Innlandet
- Capital
- Dovre
- Population
- 2523
- Area
- 0.55
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Lesja Municipality
- Highest point
- Snøhetta
- Official website
- www.dovre.kommune.no
- Image
- Dovre panorama.jpg
- Households
- 51
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- twinned administrative body
- Leppävirta
- Commons category
- Dovre
- topic's main category
- Category:Dovre
- separated from
- Lesja Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1863-00-00
- different from
- Dovre
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
Dovre is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Dovre. Other villages in Dovre include Dombås and Hjerkinn.
The 1,364.38-square-kilometre (526.79 sq mi) municipality is the 69th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Dovre Municipality is the 252nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,516. The municipality's population density is 1.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (4.7/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 7.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dovre Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.