Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Buskerud
- Administrative centre
- Lierbyen
- Mayor 2015
- Gunn Cecilie Ringdal ( H )
- Total
- 301 km (116 sq mi)
- Land
- 281 km (108 sq mi)
- Rank
- # 277 in Norway
- Density
- 77/km (200/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +9.8%
- Demonym
- Liung
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-3312
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- liung
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Buskerud
- Capital
- Lierbyen
- Population
- 28797
- Area
- 19.75
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Asker
- Official website
- www.lier.kommune.no
- Image
- Tyrifjorden holsfj-tb.jpg
- Households
- 256
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- Commons category
- Lier, Norway
- topic's main category
- Category:Lier, Norway
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lier, Norway
- language used
- Bokmål
- inception
- 1837-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Lier is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lierbyen. The municipality of Lier was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The area Åssiden was transferred from Lier to the neighboring municipality of Drammen on 1 July 1951.
Norway's longest indoor shopping center, Liertoppen, is located in Lierskogen. The newspaper Lierposten is published in Lier.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.