Skoger Municipality
Skoger herred | |
|---|---|
| Skouger herred (historic name) | |
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 Vestfold within Norway | |
 Skoger within Vestfold | |
| Coordinates: 59°41′13″N 10°13′23″E / 59.68681°N 10.22303°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Vestfold |
| District | Jarlsberg |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Disestablished | 1 Jan 1964 |
| • Succeeded by | Drammen Municipality |
| Administrative centre | Skoger |
| Area (upon dissolution) | |
• Total | 114 km2 (44 sq mi) |
| Population (1964) | |
• Total | 14,672 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (330/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Skaubøring[1] |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Bokmål[2] |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-0712[4] |
Skoger is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The 114-square-kilometre (44 sq mi)[5] municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The area is now part of Drammen Municipality in Buskerud county. The administrative centre was the village of Skoger and the other notable village was Konnerud.
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- ^ "Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1932. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m". Norsk Lovtidend (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norway: Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri: 453–471. 1932.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Helland, Amund (1915). "Skoger herred". VII. Jarlsberg og Larvik Amt. Tredje del. Norges land og folk (in Norwegian). Kristiania, Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 227. Retrieved 25 February 2024.