Rendalen Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Østerdalen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1965
- Preceded by
- Ytre Rendal and, Øvre Rendal
- Administrative centre
- Bergset
- Mayor 2019
- Linda Døsen ( Ap )
- Total
- 3,179.51 km (1,227.62 sq mi)
- Land
- 3,060.84 km (1,181.80 sq mi)
- Water
- 118.67 km (45.82 sq mi) 3.7%
- Rank
- # 13 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,754.8 m (5,757 ft)
- Density
- 0.6/km (1.6/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −2.4%
- Demonym
- Rendøl
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Rendalen is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bergset. Other villages in the municipality include Hanestad, Otnes, Sjølisand, Unset, Åkre, and Åkrestrømmen.
The 3,180-square-kilometre (1,230 sq mi) municipality is the 13th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Rendalen is the 292nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,846. The municipality's population density is 0.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (1.6/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 2.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rendalen Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.