Tolga Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Østerdalen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 1966
- Succeeded by
- Tolga-Os Municipality
- Re established
- 1 Jan 1976
- Preceded by
- Tolga-Os Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Tolga
- Mayor 2019
- Bjørnar Tollan Jordet ( SV )
- Total
- 1,122.56 km (433.42 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,097.24 km (423.65 sq mi)
- Water
- 25.32 km (9.78 sq mi) 2.3%
- Rank
- # 99 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,604.79 m (5,265.1 ft)
- Density
- 1.4/km (3.6/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −3.3%
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- tolging
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Innlandet
- Capital
- Tolga
- Population
- 1609
- Area
- 0.27
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Tynset Municipality
- Official website
- www.tolga.kommune.no
- Image
- Gata Tolga.jpg
- Households
- 20
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- Commons category
- Tolga
- topic's main category
- Category:Tolga, Norway
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1976-01-01
- different from
- Tolga
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Encyclopedic overview
Tolga 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 Tolga. Other villages in the municipality include Hodalen, Øversjødalen, and Vingelen.
The 1,123-square-kilometre (434 sq mi) municipality is the 99th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Tolga Municipality is the 301st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,606. The municipality's population density is 1.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.6/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 3.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tolga Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.