Marker Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Østfold
- District
- Smaalenene
- Administrative centre
- Ørje
- Mayor 2003
- Kjersti Nythe Nilsen ( Ap )
- Total
- 413 km (159 sq mi)
- Land
- 368 km (142 sq mi)
- Rank
- # 235 in Norway
- Density
- 9/km (23/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +2%
- Demonym
- Marking
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-3122
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- marking
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Østfold
- Capital
- Ørje
- Population
- 3647
- Area
- 45.23
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Eidsberg Municipality
- Official website
- www.marker.kommune.no
- Image
- Oerje03052006.jpg
- Households
- 112
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- Commons category
- Marker, Norway
- topic's main category
- Category:Marker, Norway
- IPA transcription
- ˈmɑɾkəɾ
- replaces
- Øymark Municipality
- inception
- 1964-01-01
- language used
- Bokmål
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Encyclopedic overview
Marker is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ørje. Marker was created as a new municipality on 1 January 1964 following the merger of the two former municipalities of Rødenes and Øymark.
The municipality borders Sweden, Aurskog-Høland municipality in Akershus county, and Aremark, Eidsberg, Rakkestad, and Rømskog municipalities in Østfold county. European route E18 passes through the municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marker Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.