Lom Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Gudbrandsdalen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Fossbergom
- Mayor 2023
- Kristian Frisvold ( LL )
- Total
- 1,968.55 km (760.06 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,887.24 km (728.67 sq mi)
- Water
- 81.31 km (31.39 sq mi) 4.1%
- Rank
- # 38 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 2,468.53 m (8,098.9 ft)
- Density
- 1.1/km (2.8/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −6.3%
- Demonym
- Lomvær
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- Lomver
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Oppland
- Capital
- Fossbergom
- Population
- 2239
- Area
- 0.16
- Elevation
- 1192
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Vang
- Highest point
- Galdhøpiggen
- Official website
- www.lom.kommune.no
- Image
- Lomseggen 02.jpg
- Households
- 28
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- topic's main category
- Category:Lom, Norway
- Commons category
- Lom, Norway
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lom, Norway
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1838-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Lom 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 Fossbergom. Another village area in Lom is Elvesæter.
The 1,969-square-kilometre (760 sq mi) municipality is the 38th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Lom Municipality is the 271st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,215. The municipality's population density is 1.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (2.8/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 6.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lom Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.