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Skjåk Municipality
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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 )
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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.