Aurskog-Høland, Viken County, Eastern Norway Region, Norway
🇳🇴 Aurskog-Høland is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bjørkelangen. The municipality of Rømskog, in Østfold county was merged into Aurskog-Høland on January 1, 2020.
Name The new municipality of Aurskog-Høland was created on 1 January 1966 after the merger of the four old municipalities of Aurskog, Nordre Høland, Søndre Høland, and Setskog.
The name Aurskog comes from the old Ør farm (Old Norse: Aurr which means "gravel"). The last element is skog (Old Norse: skógr which means "wood" therefore the meaning of the full name is "the woods around the farm Aurr". Prior to 1918, the name was written "Urskog".
The name Høland is an old district name. The first element is høy which means "hay" and the last element is land which means "land".
Europe/Oslo/Viken
Aurskog-Høland has a population of over 13,199 people. Aurskog-Høland also forms part of the wider Akershus District which has a population of over 630,752 people. It is also a part of the larger Viken County. Aurskog-Høland is situated near Oslo.
Twin Towns - Sister Cities Aurskog-Høland has links with:
🇩🇰 Frederikssund, Denmark 🇸🇪 Kumla, Sweden 🇫🇮 Sipoo, Finland🇷🇺 Krasnoselsky 59.833
🇳🇴 Nesoddtangen 59.867
🇷🇺 Nevsky District 59.867
🇷🇺 Sosnovy Bor 59.883
🇷🇺 Krasnoye Selo 59.733
🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 11.749
Locations Near: Aurskog-Høland 11.5667,59.8333
🇳🇴 Fredrikstad 11.107,59.283 d: 66.4
🇳🇴 Sarpsborg 11.107,59.283 d: 66.4
🇳🇴 Nesoddtangen 10.65,59.867 d: 51.3
🇳🇴 Hamar 11.05,60.783 d: 109.4
Antipodal to: Aurskog-Høland -168.433,-59.833
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15678.8
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 14946.3
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 14892.8
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15073.1
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11085.9
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 10991.8
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 10977.4
🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 10973.3