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Gausdal Municipality
Gausdal kommune | |
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 View of the Aulstad Church area in Gausdal | |
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 Innlandet within Norway | |
 Gausdal within Innlandet | |
| Coordinates: 61°16′36″N 9°55′21″E / 61.27667°N 9.92250°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Innlandet |
| District | Gudbrandsdal |
| Established | 1 Jan 1738 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Disestablished | 1879 |
| • Succeeded by | Vestre Gausdal and Østre Gausdal |
| Re-established | 1 Jan 1962 |
| • Preceded by | Vestre Gausdal and Østre Gausdal |
| Administrative centre | Follebu |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023) | Anette Musdalslien (Sp) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,191.16 km2 (459.91 sq mi) |
| • Land | 1,146.41 km2 (442.63 sq mi) |
| • Water | 44.74 km2 (17.27 sq mi) 3.8% |
| • Rank | #91 in Norway |
| Population (2023) | |
| • Total | 6,129 |
| • Rank | #157 in Norway |
| • Density | 5.3/km2 (14/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) |  −0.2% |
| Demonym | Gausdøl[1] |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Neutral |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-3441[3] |
| Website | Official website |
Gausdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Follebu. Other villages in Gausdal include Segelstad, Forset, and Svingvoll.
The 1,191-square-kilometre (460 sq mi) municipality is the 91st largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Gausdal is the 157th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 6,129. The municipality's population density is 5.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (14/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 0.2% over the previous 10-year period.[4][5]
Logging, farming, and tourism are important industries in the municipality.
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå (2022). "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian).
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå (2022). "09280: Area of land and fresh water (km²) (M)" (in Norwegian).