Oppland

Oppland fylke
Oppland fylke
	Coonty
	Coat airms
	Oppland athin Norawa
Kintra	Norawa
Coonty	Oppland
Region	Østlandet
Coonty ID	NO-05
Offeecial leid form	Neutral
Demonym	Opplending
Admeenistrative centre	Lillehammer
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Kristin Hille Valla ; Centre Pairty ; (2001–present)
• Coonty mayor	Audun Tron ; Labour Pairty ; (2003–present)
Area (#5 in Norawa, 7.82% o Norawa's land aurie)
• Total	25192 km2 (9,727 sq mi)
• Laund	23787 km2 (9,184 sq mi)
Population (2008)
• Total	183,851
• Density	8/km2 (20/sq mi)
• Chynge (10 years)	0.2 %
• Rank in Norawa	12 (4.01% of country)
Time zone	UTC+01 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02 (CEST)
Income (per caipita)	133,600 NOK
GDP (per caipita)	193,130 NOK (2001)
Naitional Rank:	13 (2.32% o kintra)
Website	www.oppland.no
	Data frae Statistics Norway

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1951	160,496	—
1961	166,303	+3.6%
1971	172,479	+3.7%
1981	180,765	+4.8%
1991	182,593	+1.0%
2001	183,419	+0.5%
2011	186,087	+1.5%
2021?	197,672	+6.2%
2031?	208,286	+5.4%
Source: Statistics Norway^[1].

Religion in Oppland^[2]^[3]
religion			percent
Christianity			89.60%
Islam			0.72%
Buddhism			0.14%
Other			9.54%

Oppland (help·info) is a coonty in Norawa, borderin Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo an Hedmark. The coonty admeenistration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, thegither wi Hedmark, ane o the anerlie twa landlockit coonties o Norawa.

Geography

Oppland extends frae the lakes Mjøsa an Randsfjorden tae the muntains Dovrefjell, Jotunheimen an Rondane. The coonty is conventionally dividit intae traditional destricts. These are Gudbrandsdalen, Valdres, Toten, Hadeland and Land.

Oppland includes the touns Lillehammer, Gjøvik, Otta an Fagernes, an Norawa's twa heichest muntains, Glittertind an Galdhøpiggen.

Several museums an ither attractions are situatit in Oppland an tourism is important tae the economy, Valdres an Gudbrandsdal being popular attractions. The Gudbrandsdal surroonds the river Gudbrandsdalslågen, an includes the veelages Øyer, Dovre an Dombås. Valdres includes the aurie extendin frae Jotunheimen doun tae Bagn at Begna river. It is a weel kent place for skiin an winter sports. The main population centres in this aurie are Beitostølen an Fagernes. Aicht o the ten heichest muntains in Norawa are locatit in the wastren pairt o Oppland.

The name

In Norse times the inner pairts o Norawa wis cried Upplǫnd 'the upper kintras'. The first element is upp 'upper'. The last element is lǫnd, the plural form o 'land'.

In 1757 the inner pairts o the great Akershus amt wur separatit, an gien the name Oplandenes Amt. This wis dividit in 1781 intae Christians Amt (namit efter the keeng Christian VII) an Hedemarkens Amt. The name/form wis chyngit tae Kristians Amt in 1877 (efter an offeecial spellin reform that chyngit ch tae k - see an aw Kristiania, Kristiansand an Kristiansund). In 1919 the name Kristians Amt wis chyngit (back) tae Opland fylke, an the form Oppland wis settled in 1950.

Coat-o-airms

The coat-o-airms is frae modren times (1989). It shows twa Pulsatilla vernalis.

History

In the late Iron Age, Oppland wis a petty kinrick.

Some keengs o Oppland:

Eystein, faither o Åsa who marriet Halfdan Hvitbeinn (see Ynglinga Saga, paragraph 49)
Halfdan "the Agit" Sveidasson (c. 750)
Ivar Halfdansson (c. 770)
Eystein "Glumra (the Noisy)" Ivarsson, son-in-law o Ragnvald the Muntain-Heich an faither o Ragnvald Eysteinsson (788)

Municipalities

Oppland haes a total o 26 municipalities:

Freemit airtins

Media relatit tae Oppland at Wikimedia Commons

References

[1] Projected population - Statistics Norway

[2] Statistics Norway - Church of Norway.

[3] Statistics Norway - Members of religious and life stance communities outside the Church of Norway, by religion/life stance. County. 2006-2010

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