| Øvre Eiker kommune | |||
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| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Buskerud | ||
| District | Eiker | ||
| Municipality ID | NO-0624 | ||
| Administrative centre | Hokksund | ||
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| - Mayor (2003) | Anders B. ||} Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions called counties ( fylker, singular fylke) and 430 municipalities ( kommuner, cf Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional ||-||} Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties ( Norwegian: singular fylke, plural fylker ( Bokmål is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Norway is divided into a number of traditional Districts Many districts have deep historical roots and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties Eiker is a traditional district in the county of Buskerud, Norway, consisting of the municipalities of Nedre Eiker and ISO 3166-2NO is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Norway. Hokksund is a town in the municipality of Øvre Eiker in the county of Buskerud in Norway. Werp (H) | ||
| Area (Nr. The Conservative Party ( Høyre, H meaning " right " is a Norwegian Political party. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 223 in Norway) | |||
| - Total | 457 km² (176. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 4 sq mi) | ||
| - Land | 418 km² (161. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 4 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2005) | |||
| - Total | 15,633 | ||
| - Density | 37/km² (95. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 8/sq mi) | ||
| - Change (10 years) | 4. 3 % | ||
| - Rank in Norway | 62 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Official language form | Bokmål | ||
| Demonym | Eikværing[1] | ||
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| Website: www.ovre-eiker.kommune.no | |||
Øvre Eiker is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Daylight saving time ( DST Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language Bokmål (lit "book language" or Dano-Norwegian is the most commonly used of the two official Norwegian written Standard languages the other A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and
The old municipality of Eiker was divided into Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker July 1, 1885. Eiker is a traditional district in the county of Buskerud, Norway, consisting of the municipalities of Nedre Eiker and Nedre Eiker is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway
The municipality is bordered by Kongsberg, Flesberg, Sigdal, Modum, Lier, Nedre Eiker and Hof municipalities. This article is about the Norwegian town For the industrial corporation named Kongsberg see Kongsberg Gruppen (with links to subsidiary firms. Flesberg is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway Flesberg was established as a municipality January 1 1838 (see Formannskapsdistrikt) Sigdal is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway Sigdal was established as a municipality on January 1, 1838 (see Formannskapsdistrikt Modum is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway Modum was established as a municipality January 1 1838 (see Formannskapsdistrikt) Lier may refer to Lier Belgium Lier Norway Li Er also known as Laozi, a Chinese philosopher Nedre Eiker is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway Hof is a Municipality in the county of Vestfold, Norway. Hof was established as a municipality January 1 1838 (see Formannskapsdistrikt)
The administrative center Hokksund is the largest town in this municipality, with about 8,000 inhabitants. Hokksund is a town in the municipality of Øvre Eiker in the county of Buskerud in Norway. The remaining inhabitants, some 7,000, live in the villages of Vestfossen, Skotselv, Ormåsen and Darbu. Vestfossen is a settlement in the municipality of Øvre Eiker, county of Buskerud in Norway.
The name
The Norse form of the name was Eikjar. Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age The name is the plural form of eiki n 'oak wood'. The meaning of Øvre Eiker is '(the) upper (part of) Eiker' (cf. Nedre Eiker). Nedre Eiker is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway The municipality of Eiker was divided in 1885. Eiker is a traditional district in the county of Buskerud, Norway, consisting of the municipalities of Nedre Eiker and
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1981). It shows a twig of oak. The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of Trees and Shrubs in the Genus Quercus (from Latin
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