Nedre Eiker Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Buskerud
- District
- Eiker , Lower Buskerud
- Administrative centre
- Mjøndalen
- Mayor 2018
- Bent Inge Bye ( Ap )
- Total
- 122 km (47 sq mi)
- Land
- 114 km (44 sq mi)
- Rank
- # 369 in Norway
- Density
- 187/km (480/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +11.5%
- Demonym
- Eikværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-0625
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Buskerud
- Capital
- Mjøndalen
- Population
- 24963
- Area
- 0.6104739926642515
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Holmestrand
- Official website
- www.nedre-eiker.kommune.no
- Image
- Drammenselva.jpg
- Households
- 1181
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- twinned administrative body
- Kaarina
- Commons category
- Nedre Eiker
- topic's main category
- Category:Nedre Eiker
- replaces
- Eiker Municipality
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- language used
- Bokmål
- inception
- 1885-07-01
- merged into
- Drammen
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Drammen
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Encyclopedic overview
Nedre Eiker was a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Eiker. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mjøndalen. The old municipality of Eiker was divided into Nedre Eiker (lower Eiker) and Øvre Eiker (upper) on 1 July 1885. The municipality was merged with Drammen Municipality in 2020.
General information
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nedre Eiker Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.