Nord-Odal

Nord-Odal kommune
Nord-Odal kommune
	Municipality
	Church in Nord-Odal
	Coat of arms Innlandet within ; Norway
	Nord-Odal within Innlandet
	Coordinates: 60°26′32″N 11°34′5″E
Country	Norway
County	Innlandet
District	Odal, Norway
Administrative centre	Sand
Government
• Mayor (2011)	Lise Selnes (Ap)
Area
• Total	508 km2 (196 sq mi)
• Land	475 km2 (183 sq mi)
Area rank	206 in Norway
Population (2005)
• Total	5,073
• Rank	190 in Norway
• Density	11/km2 (30/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	−1.8%
Demonym(s)	Odøling[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3414
Official language form	Bokmål[2]
Website	www.nord-odal.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Nord-Odal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Odal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sand. The parish of Nordre Odalen was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

General information

Name

The last element is the old district name Odal (Old Norse: Ódalr). The first element of this is ó, a sideform of á which means "river" (here the Glomma river). The last element is dalr which means "valley" or "dale".

The first element Nord- (meaning "northern") was added after 1819 when the parish of Odal was divided in two. (See also Sør-Odal.)

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 10 January 1992. The arms show two black grapple tools on a gold background. They represent the tradition of forestry and logging in the municipality.[3]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Nord-Odal by country of origin in 2017**[4]
Ancestry	Number
Poland	42
Lithuania	30
Sweden	25
Thailand	16
Syria	15
Afghanistan	14
Denmark	13

Geography

Nord-Odal is situated around the northern edge of the lake Storsjøen, bordered to the north by the municipality of Stange, to the east by Åsnes and Grue, to the south by Sør-Odal and Nes, and to the west by Eidsvoll.

Notable residents

Jan Werner Danielsen, singer
Sigurd Hoel, writer
Lasse Sætre, bronze-medalist in the 2002 Winter Olympics (speed skating)

References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
"Regler for bruk av kommunevåpen tilhørende Nord-Odal kommune" (in Norwegian). Nord-Odal kommune. Archived from the original on 16 June 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
"Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

External links

Media related to Nord-Odal at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Nord-Odal at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway

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[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

[2] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[3] "Regler for bruk av kommunevåpen tilhørende Nord-Odal kommune" (in Norwegian). Nord-Odal kommune. Archived from the original on 16 June 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.

[4] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.