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Gjøvik Municipality
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Gjøvik Municipality is a local government area located in the Innlandet region of Norway. It serves as an administrative division that provides public services and governance to the communities within its territory.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- gjøviking
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Innlandet
- Capital
- Gjøvik
- Population
- 31350
- Area
- 0.85
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Head of government
- Tore Hagebakken
- Shares border with
- Ringsaker Municipality
- Official website
- www.gjovik.kommune.no
- Image
- Gjøvik sett fra Nordlia.jpg
- Households
- 1139
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- Commons category
- Gjøvik
- topic's main category
- Category:Gjøvik
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Gjøvik
- twinned administrative body
- Næstved Municipality
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Gjøvik
- separated from
- Vardal municipality
- language used
- Bokmål
- inception
- 1861-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Gjøvik (Gjøvik) is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gjøvik. Some of the villages in Gjøvik include Biri, Bybrua, Hunndalen, Snertingdal, and Vardal.
The 671-square-kilometre (259 sq mi) municipality is the 169th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Gjøvik Municipality is the 35th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 31,175. The municipality's population density is 46.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (120/sq mi) and its population has increased by 4.2% over the previous 10-year period.
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