Tokke Municipality
Tokke kommune | |
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 View of Dalen and Bandak | |
 Flag | |
 Telemark within Norway | |
 Tokke within Telemark | |
| Coordinates: 59°25′2″N 7°58′43″E / 59.41722°N 7.97861°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Telemark |
| District | Vest-Telemark |
| Established | 1 Jan 1964 |
| • Preceded by | Lårdal and Mo |
| Administrative centre | Dalen |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2015) | Jarand Felland (Sp) |
| Area | |
• Total | 984.58 km2 (380.15 sq mi) |
| • Land | 904.65 km2 (349.29 sq mi) |
| • Water | 79.93 km2 (30.86 sq mi) 8.1% |
| • Rank | #117 in Norway |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 2,198 |
| • Rank | #268 in Norway |
| • Density | 2.4/km2 (6/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) |  −3.8% |
| Demonyms | Daling, Eidsboring, Lårdøl, Skafsåing, Tokkebu[1] |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Nynorsk |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-4034[3] |
| Website | Official website |
Tokke is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Vest-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Dalen. Other villages in Tokke include Åmdals Verk, Eidsborg, Høydalsmo, Lårdal, and Øvre Byrte. The Eidsborg Stave Church is one of Norway's old stave churches and it is located in Eidsborg, just north of Dalen.[4]
The 985-square-kilometre (380 sq mi) municipality is the 117th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Tokke is the 268th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,198. The municipality's population density is 2.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (6.2/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 3.8% over the previous 10-year period.[5][6]
- ^ "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.
- ^ Nilsen, Jan Erik; Mæhlum, Lars; Lundbo, Sten; Helleve, Eirik, eds. (30 June 2022). "Tokke". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian).
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "09280: Area of land and fresh water (km²) (M)" (in Norwegian).