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Åsnes Municipality

municipality in Innlandet, Norway
Organization Municipality Of Norway Q48769

Facts

26 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Norway, organization[4]
Official website
asnes.kommune.no, www.asnes.kommune.no[19][20]
Legal form
kommune[32]

Status and dates

Inception
1854[16]
Replaces
Åsnes og Våler Municipality[31]

Location

Country
Norway[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 60.654°, 12.153°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Hedmark, Innlandet[1]

Industry and activity

Industry
general public administration activities[15]

Financials

Employees
+1157[29]
More facts +16
Area
0.55 (0–1.0k, n=26)[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]
Capital
Flisa[5]
Demonym
åsnessokning, åsnessokning[39]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Åsnes kommune
Head of government
Ørjan Bue, Kari Heggelund[3]
Highest point
Elgklinten[17]
Language used
Bokmål
Main regulatory text
Act relating to municipalities and county authorities[12]
Number of households
157 (71–3.6k, n=6)[33][34][35][36][37][38]
Office held by the head of government
mayor of Åsnes[30]
Official language
Bokmål[6]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory
Population
7.2k (7.2k–7.5k, n=8)[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]
Shares border with
Våler Municipality, Grue Municipality, Nord-Odal Municipality, Stange Municipality, Torsby Municipality[7][8][9][10][11]
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change[18]
Twinned administrative body
Vasanello, Jämsä[13][14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Åsnes Municipality da Åsnes Kommune de Åsnes he אסנס id Aasnes id Asnes it Asnes nl Asnes pl Aasnes pl Asnes pt Asnes ro Comuna Åsnes ru Оснес sv Åsnes kommun zh 奧斯內斯 zh-hans 奥斯内斯
🔖 Identifiers · 17
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Gjesåssjøen.jpg ↗
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q48769
Freebase ID
/m/0185tg
GNS Unique Feature ID
-251819
GeoNames ID
3162593
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Åsnes
INaturalist place ID
40109
KulturNav-ID
731c02cd-84a4-42fb-9f9a-a2577b97f6cb
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Åsnes_kommune
MusicBrainz area ID
3fa4cb93-e9a9-442d-84dd-191521e5c5c6
Norwegian municipality number
0425, 3418
Norwegian organisation number
964948232
Show all 17 identifiers +5
OpenStreetMap relation ID
412538
Quora topic ID
Åsnes
SSR place name number
693620
Topic's main category
Category:Åsnes
Who's on First ID
1159297037

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 17
Glomma, Flisa, Finnskogen, Kjellmyra, Gjesåssjøen, Norwegian National Road 2, Flisa, Rottnan +9 more
People born here 5
Matoma, Undis Blikken, Jacob Sparre Schneider, Gunnar Gundersen, Ole Bjerke
Shares border with 5
Torsby Municipality, Nord-Odal Municipality, Stange Municipality, Grue Municipality, Våler Municipality
← Shares border with 5
Torsby Municipality, Nord-Odal Municipality, Stange Municipality, Grue Municipality, Våler Municipality
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Hedmark, Innlandet
Twinned administrative body 2
Vasanello, Jämsä
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Hedmark, Innlandet
← Twinned administrative body 2
Vasanello, Jämsä
Capital 1
Flisa
Country 1
Norway
Instance of 1
municipality of Norway
Language used 1
Bokmål
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
Topic's main category 1
Category:Åsnes
← Capital of 1
Flisa
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Åsnes
← Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 1
Hof Municipality
← Merged into 1
Hof Municipality
← SNARC ID 1
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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. 18d ago · Ajarmund · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Legal form → kommune
    Norwegian organisation number → 964948232
    Official language → Bokmål
    Employees → 1,157
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "kommuner (details)"
  2. 25d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Norway
    Topic's main category → Category:Åsnes
    Replaces → Åsnes og Våler Municipality
    Capital → Flisa
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "source for demonym, source for administrative centre, highest point from Store norske leksikon (…"
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