Grue Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Solør
- Established
- 1 January 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Kirkenær
- Mayor 2019
- Rune Grenberg ( Ap )
- Total
- 837.17 km (323.23 sq mi)
- Land
- 777.42 km (300.16 sq mi)
- Water
- 59.75 km (23.07 sq mi) 7.1%
- Rank
- # 136 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 583.93 m (1,915.8 ft)
- Density
- 5.4/km (14/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −8.4%
- Demonym
- Grusokning
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Grue kommune - Forside
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Encyclopedic overview
Grue is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kirkenær. Other villages in the municipality include Bergesida, Grinder, Namnå, Risberget, Rotberget, Skasenden, and Svullrya.
The 837-square-kilometre (323 sq mi) municipality is the 136th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Grue is the 193rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,513. The municipality's population density is 5.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (14/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 8.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grue Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.