Fredrikstad

Fredrikstad kommune
Fredrikstad kommune
	Municipality
	Coat airms Østfold within ; Norawa
	Fredrikstad within Østfold
	Coordinates: 59°12′19″N 10°57′0″E / 59.20528°N 10.95000°ECoordinates: 59°12′19″N 10°57′0″E / 59.20528°N 10.95000°E
Kintra	Norawa
Coonty	Østfold
Destrict	Eastren Norawa
Admeenistrative centre	Fredrikstad
Govrenment
• Mayor (2011)	Jon Ivar Nygård (Ap)
Area
• Total	285.9 km2 (110.4 sq mi)
• Laund	283 km2 (109 sq mi)
Area rank	#283 in Norawa
Population (2012)
• Total	75,583
• Rank	#6 in Norawa
• Density	249/km2 (640/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	7.7%
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0106
Offeecial leid form	Bokmål
Website	www.fredrikstad.kommune.no
	Data frae Stateestics Norawa

Fredrikstad (help·info) (previously Frederiksstad) (literally Fredrik's Toun) is a ceety an municipality in Østfold coonty, Norawa. The admeenistrative centre o the municipality is the ceety o Fredrikstad.

The ceety o Fredrikstad wis foondit in 1567 bi Keeng Frederick II, an established as a municipality on 1 Januar 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipality o Glemmen wis mergit wi Fredrikstad on 1 Januar 1964. The rural municipalities o Borge, Onsøy, Kråkerøy, an Rolvsøy wur mergit wi Fredrikstad on 1 Januar 1994.

The ceety straddles the river Glomma whaur it meets the Skagerrak. Alang wi neighborin Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad forms the fift lairgest ceety in Norawa: Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg. As o 1 Januar 2008, accordin tae Statistics Norway, these twa municipalities hae a total population o 123,029 wi 71,976 in Fredrikstad an 51,053 in Sarpsborg.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — sister ceeties

The follaein ceeties are twinned wi Fredrikstad:^[1]

Ceety	Region	Kintra
Aalborg	North Denmark Region	Denmark
Húsavík	Suður-Þingeyjarsýsla	Iceland
Kotka	Kymenlaakso	Finland
Karlskoga	Örebro	Swaden
Patzún	Chimaltenango	Guatemala
San Martín Jilotepeque	Chimaltenango	Guatemala
Zhuzhou	Hunan	Cheenae