Åmot

Åmot Municipality

*Åmot kommune*
Åmot Municipality Åmot kommune
Municipality
	Nordre Osen old Church
	Flag Coat of arms
	Hedmark within Norway
	Åmot within Hedmark
	Coordinates: 61°8′47″N 11°24′57″E / 61.14639°N 11.41583°E
Country	Norway
County	Hedmark
District	Østerdalen
Administrative centre	Rena
Government
• Mayor (2003)	Ole Gustav Narud (Sp)
Area
• Total	1,340 km2 (520 sq mi)
• Land	1,293 km2 (499 sq mi)
• Rank	#67 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	4,425
• Rank	#217 in Norway
• Density	3/km2 (8/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	+1.7%
Demonym	Åmoting
Official language
• Norwegian form	Bokmål
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0429
Website	Official website
	Data from Statistics Norway

Åmot is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rena. The parish of Aamot was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Åmot farm (Old Norse: Ámót), since the first church was built here. The first element is á which means "river" and the last element is mót meaning "meeting". (The rivers Glomma and Rena run together here.) Prior to 1921, the name was written "Aamot".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1987. The arms show three gold or yellow timber axes on a green background. They symbolize the importance and history of the logging industry in the area.^[4]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Åmot by country of origin in 2017**^[5]
Ancestry	Number
Lithuania	60
Poland	29
Germany	28
Eritrea	24
Sweden	23

Geography

Åmot is located in the central part of Hedmark county. It is bordered to the north by Rendalen, to the east by Trysil, to the south by Elverum, to the southwest by Hamar and Ringsaker, and in the west by Stor-Elvdal.

The Renaelva river flows into the Glomma river in Åmot.

Education

Åmot has four schools: Åmot Ungdomsskole (Åmot Lower secondary school), Rena Barneskole, Deset Oppvekstsenter, and Osen Oppvekstsenter.

References

^ "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. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
^ "Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Åmot kommune. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
^ "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2 July 2015 suggested (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

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

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

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

[3] Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.

[4] "Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Åmot kommune. Retrieved 2008-12-20.

[5] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2 July 2015 suggested (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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