Åsnes

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Åsnes kommune

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County Hedmark
District Solør
Municipality
Administrative centre Flisa
Mayor (2003) Frank Bjørneset (Ap)
Official language form Bokmål
Area
- Total
- Land
- Percentage 1,041 Square kilometre>km²
1,004 km²
0.32 %
Population
- Total (as of 2004>2004)
- Percentage
- Change (10 years)
- Density Ranked 127
7,924
0.17 %
-5.6 %
8/km²
Coordinates
[www.asnes.kommune.no]
[Data from Statistics Norway]
Coordinates: Åsnes is a municipality in the county of Hedmark, Norway. It is bordered on the north by Våler, in the south by Grue, and in the west by Nord-Odal and Stange. To the east it borders the Swedish municipality of Torsby.

Finnskogen or the Finn's forest is a belt about 32 km (20 miles) wide which runs continuously northwards along the border between Norway and Sweden in 6 Norwegian municipalities including Åsnes.

Åsnes used to be part of a grander district called Hof, in the late 19th century this district was divided into tree municipalities Hof, Åsnes and Våler. Åsnes lays beetween Hof and Våler, and has more arable land than the two others and thus is a bigger population centre. In 1963 Hof was united with Åsnes. There has been talk about further municipality merging but the neigboring municipalities Grue and Våler have rejected Åsnes in favor of bigger municipalities.

Åsnes is also a manufacturer of skis, located in Fjaler, Norway

Municipalities of Hedmark
Alvdal \| Eidskog \| Elverum \| Engerdal \| Folldal \| Grue \| Hamar \| Kongsvinger \| Løten \| Nord-Odal \| Os \| Rendalen \| Ringsaker \| Stange \| Stor-Elvdal \| Sør-Odal \| Tolga \| Trysil \| Tynset \| Våler \| Åmot \| Åsnes

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