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Skjåk Municipality
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Within Vinony's link graph, Skjåk Municipality is referenced by 243 other articles, and connects out to tincture, Nynorsk and Gudbrandsdalen.
The entry is geolocated on the map in adm2nd.
It is catalogued under topics including 1866 establishments in Norway, Municipalities of Innlandet and Populated places established in 1866.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Gudbrandsdalen
- Established
- 1 January 1866
- Preceded by
- Lom Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Bismo
- Mayor 2019
- Edel Kveen ( Sp )
- Total
- 2,075.51 km (801.36 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,965.05 km (758.71 sq mi)
- Water
- 110.46 km (42.65 sq mi) 5.3%
- Rank
- # 33 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 2,171.79 m (7,125.3 ft)
- Density
- 1/km (2.6/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −5.4%
- Demonym
- Skjåkvær
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- skjåkvær
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Innlandet
- Capital
- Bismo
- Population
- 2185
- Area
- 0.35
- Elevation
- 600
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Fjord Municipality
- Official website
- www.skjaak.kommune.no
- Image
- Skjaak.jpg
- Households
- 46
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- Commons category
- Skjåk
- topic's main category
- Category:Skjåk
- separated from
- Lom Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1866-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Skjåk is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bismo. Most of the municipal residents live in the Billingsdalen and Ottadalen valleys along the river Otta. The local newspaper is named Fjuken.
The 2,075.5-square-kilometre (801.4 sq mi) municipality is the 33rd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Skjåk Municipality is the 273rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,179. The municipality's population density is 1 inhabitant per square kilometre (2.6/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 5.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skjåk Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.