Hedmark

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Hedmark is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.

Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It includes a long part of the borderline with Sweden, Dalarna County and Värmland County. The largest lakes are Femunden and Mjøsa. It also includes parts of Glomma. Geographically, Hedmark is in the traditional sense divided in the following areas: Hedemarken, east of Mjøsa, Østerdalen, north of Elverum, and Glåmdalen, south of Elverum. Hedmark and Oppland are the only ones of the Norwegian counties with no coastline. Hedmark also hosted some of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games

In the county are the well-known towns and built places Hamar, Kongsvinger, Elverum and Tynset. Hedmark is one of the less urbanized areas in Norway, as about the half of the inhabitans live in rural land. Population is mainly concentrated in the rich agricultural district adjoining Mjøsa to the southeast. The county's extensive forests supply much of Norway's timber; logs were previously floated down Glomma to the coast but are now transported by truck and train.

Districts

The county is conventionally divided into traditional districts. These are Hedemarken, Solør, Østerdalen, Odalen, Vinger and Glåmdal.

History

In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Hedmark was a petty kingdom. Kings of Hedmark includes:

Halfdan Hvitbeinn
Sigtryg Eysteinsson
Eystein Eysteinsson, brother of Sigtryg
Halfdan the Black, King Haralds father, was king of half of Hedmark after defeating rulers Sigtryg and his brother, Eystein.

Before 1781, the county was part of Oppland, then called Oplandene.

Municipalities

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