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Encyclopedia > Røyken
Røyken kommune
Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke, until 1918 known as amter, singular - amt), and 433 municipalities (kommuner). Oslo is considered as both a county and a municipality. There is some political disagreement on whether counties are a practical or indeed necessary level of administration... County Buskerud is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. The county administration is located in Drammen. Buskerud extends from Hurum at the Oslofjord to the Halling mountains and Hardanger. Its western part is a mountaneous plateau with forested valleys and high, grassy... Buskerud
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Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke), and 433 municipalities (kommuner). Oslo (the capital) is considered as both a county and a municipality. There is also an alphabethical list of municipalities in Norway. Akershus Asker Aurskog-Høland Bærum Eidsvoll Enebakk Fet Frogn Gjerdrum... Municipality The ISO 3166-2 codes for Norway describe 19 counties (fylke). The first part of the code is the ISO 3166-1 country code NO for Norway, the second part is two-digit-numeric (with trailing zeros). The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series... NO-0627
Administrative centre Røyken
Mayor (2003) Rune Kjølstad ( Høyre - Norwegian Conservative Party The Conservative Party (norwegian Høyre, H, meaning right) is a Norwegian right-wing party. Founded in 1884, it is Norways second oldest political party; the first chairman of the party was Emil Stang, and the current leader (since 2004) is Erna... H)
Official language form Bokmål
This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. The article area (geometry) is more mathematical. Area is a quantity expressing the size of a region of space. Surface area refers to the summation of the areas of the exposed sides of an object. Units Units for measuring... Area
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113 Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. It is one of the SI derived units. 1 km² is equal to: the area of a square measuring 1 kilometre on each side 1 000 000 m2 100 hectares 0.386 102 square miles... km²
111 km²
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In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. Population is studied in a wide variety of ways and disciplines. In population dynamics, size, age and sex structure, mortality, reproductive... Population
 - Total ( 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... 2004)
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 - Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. However it is most frequently applied to living organisms, humans in particular. Population density is usually expressed in terms of items or organisms per unit area. Definitions of population density Population density, according to the definition above, depends... Density		 Ranked 59
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153/km²
This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... Coordinates 59°44′ N 10°25′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=59_44_N_10_25_E_type:adm2nd_region:NO-0627)
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Data from Statistics Norway (http://www.ssb.no/english/municipalities/0627)

Røyken is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, The Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia, with territorial waters bordering Danish and British waters. It has a very elongated form and has an extensive coastline along the North Atlantic Ocean, where Norways famous fjords... Norway.



Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke), and 433 municipalities (kommuner). Oslo (the capital) is considered as both a county and a municipality. There is also an alphabethical list of municipalities in Norway. Akershus Asker Aurskog-Høland Bærum Eidsvoll Enebakk Fet Frogn Gjerdrum... Municipalities of Buskerud is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. The county administration is located in Drammen. Buskerud extends from Hurum at the Oslofjord to the Halling mountains and Hardanger. Its western part is a mountaneous plateau with forested valleys and high, grassy... Buskerud Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Start the Buskerud vapen.png article. Search for Buskerud vapen.png in other articles. Look for Buskerud vapen.png in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project. Look for Buskerud vapen.png in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound...

County Buskerud Landscape Municipality NO-0602 Administrative centre Drammen Mayor (2003) Tore Opdal Hansen (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 366 137 km² 135 km² 0.04 % Population  - Total ( 2004)  - Percentage  - Change (10 years)  ... Drammen | The municipality Flesberg in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 2,532 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002, mainly in the four villages of Svene, Lampeland, Flesberg and Lyngdal. The administrative area is 560 km². The economy of Flesberg is dominated by forestry and agriculture, as well as the cluster... Flesberg | County Buskerud Landscape Hallingdal Municipality NO-0615 Administrative centre Flå Mayor (2003) Hans Bekken (Flå Bygdeliste) Official language form Bokmål Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 159 704 km² 670 km² 0.22 % Population  - Total ( 2004)  - Percentage  - Change... Flå | The municipality Gol in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 4,415 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. Categories: Municipalities of Norway ... Gol | Hemsedal is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway. It has 1,921 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. Hemsedal is the second largest ski resort in Norway and has the largest number of millionaires per capita. Categories: Municipalities of Norway | Valleys of Norway ... Hemsedal | Hol is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 4,578 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. The administrative centre is in Geilo. Categories: Norway geography stubs | Municipalities of Norway ... Hol | Hole is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway. It has 5,117 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002, and covers 195 km². Hole is considered as part of the landscape of Ringerike, not to be confused with the municipality of Ringerike. Hole is located around lake Tyrifjorden and... Hole | The municipality of Hurum in the county of Buskerud, Norway, had 8,599 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. Categories: Municipalities of Norway ... Hurum | Kongsberg (lit. The Kings Mountain) is a municipality and town in the county of Buskerud, Norway. Including the surrounding rural districts, the administrative area is 792 km². The town was founded in 1624 under the name Konings Bierg by Danish/Norwegian king Christian IV as a mining community (see... Kongsberg | County Buskerud Landscape Municipality NO-0622 Administrative centre Noresund Mayor (2003) Olav Skinnes (Tverrpolitisk bygdeliste) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 248 375 km² 340 km² 0.12 % Population  - Total ( 2004)  - Percentage  - Change (10 years)  ... Krødsherad | The municipality Lier in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 21,536 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. Categories: Municipalities of Norway ... Lier | The municipality Modum in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 12,541 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. Modum is home to one of the largest ski jumping hills in the world, Vikersundbakken. The area does also have a long tradition of skiing with several great skiers. Categories: Municipalities of... Modum | The municipality Nedre Eiker (Lower Eiker) in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 21,377 inhabitants as of January 1, 2004. Nedre Eiker is part of Eiker, an agricultural landscape with a long history. Categories: Municipalities of Norway ... Nedre Eiker | The municipality Nes in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 3,479 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. Categories: Municipalities of Norway ... Nes | The municipality Nore og Uvdal in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 2,754 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. The municipality is located at the top of the valley Numedal, with a widely spread area of 2505 km2. The civic centre is Rødberg. Categories: Municipalities of Norway ... Nore og Uvdal | Ringerike is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway. It had 28 074 inhabitants on 1 September 2004, and covers an area of 1558 km². Hønefoss town is the municipals administrative center. The current mayor is Mr. Kolbjørn Kværum (elected 2003-2007). The landscape of... Ringerike | The municipality Rollag in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 1,477 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. The civic center is the village of Rollag, although the post populated area in the minicipality is Veggli. Categories: Municipalities of Norway ... Rollag | Røyken | The municipality Sigdal in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 3,544 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. Categories: Municipalities of Norway ... Sigdal | County Buskerud Landscape Eiker Municipality NO-0624 Administrative centre Hokksund Mayor (2003) Anders B. Werp (H) Official language form Bokmål Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 223 457 km² 418 km² 0.14 % Population  - Total ( 2004)  - Percentage  - Change (10... Øvre Eiker | County Buskerud Landscape Hallingdal Municipality NO-0619 Administrative centre Ål Mayor (2003) Torleif T. Dalseide ( V) Official language form Nynorsk Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 85 1,171 km² 1,081 km² 0.36 % Population  - Total ( 2004)  - Percentage  - Change ... Ål


 

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