Lier Municipality
Lier kommune | |
|---|---|
 City Hall in Lierbyen | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Buskerud within Norway | |
 Lier within Buskerud | |
| Coordinates: 59°47′38″N 10°15′58″E / 59.7937863°N 10.2660000°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Buskerud |
| Administrative centre | Lierbyen |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2015) | Gunn Cecilie Ringdal (H) |
| Area | |
• Total | 301 km2 (116 sq mi) |
| • Land | 281 km2 (108 sq mi) |
| • Rank | #277 in Norway |
| Population (24971) | |
• Total | 21,594 |
| • Rank | #40 in Norway |
| • Density | 77/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) |  +9.8% |
| Demonym | Liung[1] |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Bokmål |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-3312[3] |
| Website | Official website |
Lier is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lierbyen. The municipality of Lier was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The area Åssiden was transferred from Lier to the neighboring municipality of Drammen on 1 July 1951.
Norway's longest indoor shopping center, Liertoppen, is located in Lierskogen. The newspaper Lierposten is published in Lier.[4]
- ^ "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. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Store norske leksikon: Lierposten.