Rygge
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Rygge was a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. It was merged into Moss municipality on 1 January 2020. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rygge. Rygge was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).
Key facts
- Kommune.name
- Rygge
- Kommune.former
- yes
- Kommune.idnumber
- 0136
- Kommune.county
- Østfold
- Kommune.capital
- Rygge
- Kommune.language
- Bokmål
- Kommune.demonym
- Ryggesokning
- Kommune.coatofarms
- Rygge komm.svg
- Kommune.munwebpage
- www.rygge.kommune.no
- Kommune.mayor
- Inger-Lise Skartlien
- Kommune.mayor_party
- Ap
- Kommune.mayor_as_of
- 2007
- Kommune.area_rank
- 400
- Kommune.area_total_km2
- 74
- Kommune.area_land_km2
- 70
- Kommune.area_water_percent
- 0.02
- Kommune.population_as_of
- 2004
- Kommune.population_rank
- 76
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1838
- Location
- Rygge, Norway
- Also known as
- Rygge Kommune
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.458768.0
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- ryggesokning
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Østfold
- Population
- 16145
- Area
- 3.568481947073869
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Råde Municipality
- Official website
- www.rygge.kommune.no
- Households
- 181
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- IPA transcription
- ˈɾʏɡə
- twinned administrative body
- Vimmerby Municipality
- Commons category
- Rygge
- topic's main category
- Category:Rygge
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- language used
- Bokmål
- merged into
- Moss Municipality
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Moss Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- General information
- Name
- Coat-of-arms
- Rygge Church
- Military
- Climate
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Rygge was a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. It was merged into Moss municipality on 1 January 2020. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rygge. Rygge was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).
The emblem of Rygge is the Pasque flower. Rygge is connected to Oslo by double-tracked railway, and four-lane freeway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rygge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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