Skedsmo Municipality
Sign in to saveSkedsmo was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the town of Lillestrøm. About one third of the municipal population lived in Lillestrøm. Other important towns are Skedsmokorset, Skjetten and Strømmen. A smaller settlement adjoining Lillestrøm is Kjeller.
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Location
- Lillestrøm, Norway
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.459051.c · ISNI 0000 0004 4653 9386
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- skedsmoing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Akershus
- Capital
- Lillestrøm
- Population
- 55652
- Area
- 0.9140082100844815
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Oslo Municipality
- Official website
- www.skedsmo.kommune.no
- Image
- Skedsmo rådhus Lillestrøm.jpg
- Households
- 2667
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- IPA transcription
- ˈʂɛsmuː
- Commons category
- Skedsmo
- topic's main category
- Category:Skedsmo
- twinned administrative body
- Alingsås Municipality
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Lillestrøm Municipality
- language used
- Bokmål
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Lillestrøm Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
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- General information
- Name
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- History
- Government
- International relations
- Twin towns — Sister cities
- References
- External links
Skedsmo was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the town of Lillestrøm. About one third of the municipal population lived in Lillestrøm. Other important towns are Skedsmokorset, Skjetten and Strømmen. A smaller settlement adjoining Lillestrøm is Kjeller.
The local newspaper is Romerikes Blad (circulation 39,139 in 2004). The paper comes out daily.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skedsmo Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.