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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Buskerud
- District
- Ringerike
- Administrative centre
- Vik
- Mayor 2003
- Syver Leivestad ( H )
- Total
- 198 km (76 sq mi)
- Land
- 134 km (52 sq mi)
- Rank
- # 329 in Norway
- Density
- 39/km (100/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +13.6%
- Demonym
- Holeværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-3310
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Hole is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Ringerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vik. Hole is located around lake Tyrifjorden and extends to the woodland around Oslo. The soil is fertile and suited to growing fruit, berries and other agricultural products.
The municipality of Hole was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The annex of Tyristrand was separated from Hole on 1 July 1916 to become a municipality of its own. The municipality of Hole was merged into the neighboring municipality of Ringerike in 1964, however, this merger ended in 1977 when Hole was restored as a separate municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hole” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.