Telemark

Telemark fylke
Telemark fylke
	Coonty
	Coat airms
	Telemark athin Norawa
Kintra	Norawa
Coonty	Telemark
Region	Østlandet
Coonty ID	NO-08
Offeecial leid form	Neutral
Demonym	Teledøl or Telemarking
Admeenistrative centre	Skien
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Kari Nordheim-Larsen ; Arbeiderpartiet ; (2006–present)
• Coonty mayor	Gunn Marit Helgesen ; Høyre ; (2003–present)
Area (#10 in Norawa, 4.55% o Norawa's land aurie)
• Total	15299 km2 (5,907 sq mi)
• Laund	13854 km2 (5,349 sq mi)
Population (2008)
• Total	167,102
• Density	12/km2 (30/sq mi)
• Chynge (10 years)	1.8 %
• Rank in Norawa	13 (3.63% of country)
Time zone	UTC+01 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02 (CEST)
Income (per caipita)	139,900 NOK
GDP (per caipita)	219,404 NOK (2001)
Naitional Rank:	12 (2.38% o kintra)
Website	www.telemark-fk.no
	Data frae Statistics Norway

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1951	136,519	—
1961	149,943	+9.8%
1971	156,778	+4.6%
1981	162,050	+3.4%
1991	162,869	+0.5%
2001	165,595	+1.7%
2011	169,185	+2.2%
2021?	180,966	+7.0%
2031?	191,552	+5.8%
Source: Statistics Norway.^[1]

Religion in Telemark^[2]^[3]
religion			percent
Christianity			86.60%
Islam			1.50%
Buddhism			0.24%
Other			11.66%

Telemark (help·info) is a coonty in Norawa, borderin Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland an Aust-Agder. The coonty admeenistration is in Skien. Till 1919 the coonty wis kent as Bratsberg amt.

Location

The coonty is locatit in sootheastren Norawa, extendin frae Hardangervidda tae the Skagerrak coast. The coastline extends frae Langesundsfjorden to Gjernestangen at the border tae Aust-Agder. Telemark haes a vera braken an heterogeneous landscape, includin mony hills an valleys.

Infrastructur

The internaitional road E18 goes through the soothren pairts o Telemark, namely Grenland an the municipality o Kragerø. European route 134, anither important motorwa an the fastest route atween Oslo an Bergen, goes through the municipalities o Vinje, Tokke, Kviteseid, Seljord, Hjartdal an Notodden. RV36, stretchin frae Porsgrunn to Seljord, links the E18 an E134 motorwas.

Telemark is well servit bi railweys. The Sørlandsbanen runs through the traditional destricts o Vestmar an Midt-Telemark, servin the municipalities o Drangedal, Nome, Bø and Sauherad. Grenland is primarily servit bi Vestfoldbanen, but haes connections through Bratsbergbanen which runs atween Skien an Notodden an aw.

Geiteryggen Airport in Skien affers flichts tae Bergen an Stockholm.

Frae Langesund, Kystlink operates ferry services tae Swaden an Denmark.

The main bus lines in the coonty are operatit bi Telemark Bilruter, servin wastren an middle pairts o the coonty, an Nettbuss which serves the middle, eastren an soothren pairts o the coonty. Drangedal Bilruter serves the Vestmar region.

Population

The lairgest population centres are Skien, Porsgrunn, Notodden, Rjukan an Kragerø. Ither important places are Bø, Fyresdal an Vinje.

The name

The Norse form o the name was Þelamǫrk. The first element is the genitive plural case o þelir, the name o an auld Germanic tribe. The last element is mǫrk 'firthland, borderland, march'. (See an aw Hedmark and Finnmark.)

Till 1919 the coonty wis cried Bratsberg amt. The amt wis namit efter the ferm Bratsberg (Norse Brattsberg), syne this was the seat o the amtmann ('govrenor'). The first element is the genitive case o brattr m 'steep montain', the last element is berg n 'mountain'. (The name is referrin tae a steep muntainside ahint the ferm.)

Telemark lent its name tae Telemark skiin, a style inventit bi Sondre Norheim, an the characteristic Telemark landin o ski jumpin.

Coat-o-airms

The coat-o-airms is frae modren times (1970). It shows an auld type o battle axe, significant for the coonty.

History

Some historians uised tae believe that Telemark haed been a petty kinrick in the early Viking Age, prior tae the reign o Harald Fairhair. This assertion, housomeivver, is unfoondit.

The film The Heroes of Telemark is loosely based on the Norse hivy watter sabotage, a raid on a hivy water plant at Rjukan durin Warld War II. Ray Mears made a documentary titled The Real Heroes of Telemark as a response tae the inaccuracies o the film, givin an accoont mair focused on the ootdoor skills that wur required for the operation (spendin months in the muntains an remote cabins).

Destricts

The coonty is conventionally dividit intae traditional destricts. These are Grenland, Vest-Telemark, Midt-Telemark, Øst-Telemark an Vestmar.

Municipalities

Rank	Name	Inhabitants^[4]	Area km²
7000100000000000000♠1	Skien	7004516680000000000♠51,668	7002722000000000000♠722
7000200000000000000♠2	Porsgrunn	7004326230000000000♠32,623	7002161000000000000♠161
7000300000000000000♠3	Bamble	7004141070000000000♠14,107	7002282000000000000♠282
7000400000000000000♠4	Notodden	7004123900000000000♠12,390	7002856000000000000♠856
7000500000000000000♠5	Kragerø	7004106200000000000♠10,620	7002289000000000000♠289
7000600000000000000♠6	Nome	7003652700000000000♠6,527	7002389000000000000♠389
7000700000000000000♠7	Tinn	7003602200000000000♠6,022	7003185800000000000♠1,858
7000800000000000000♠8	Bø	7003559500000000000♠5,595	7002260000000000000♠260
7000900000000000000♠9	Sauherad	7003427000000000000♠4,270	7002292000000000000♠292
7001100000000000000♠10	Drangedal	7003415900000000000♠4,159	7002998000000000000♠998
7001110000000000000♠11	Vinje	7003364100000000000♠3,641	7003274000000000000♠2,740
7001120000000000000♠12	Seljord	7003296600000000000♠2,966	7002672000000000000♠672
7001130000000000000♠13	Kviteseid	7003252200000000000♠2,522	7002626000000000000♠626
7001140000000000000♠14	Siljan	7003241200000000000♠2,412	7002203000000000000♠203
7001150000000000000♠15	Tokke	7003233700000000000♠2,337	7002907000000000000♠907
7001160000000000000♠16	Hjartdal	7003158700000000000♠1,587	7002741000000000000♠741
7001170000000000000♠17	Nissedal	7003140400000000000♠1,404	7002789000000000000♠789
7001180000000000000♠18	Fyresdal	7003138100000000000♠1,381	7003111000000000000♠1,110
Total	Telemark	7005168231000000000♠168,231	7004131730000000000♠13,173