Hedmark

Hedmark is a county in Norway, bordering S?r-Tr?ndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.

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Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of ?stlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It includes a long part of the borderline with Sweden, Dalarna County and V?rmland County. The largest lakes are Femunden and Mj?sa. It also includes parts of Glomma. Geographically, Hedmark is in the traditional sense divided in the following areas: Hedemarken, east of Mj?sa, ?sterdalen, north of Elverum, and Gl?mdalen, south of Elverum. Hedmark and Oppland are the only ones of the Norwegian counties with no coastline. Hedmark also hosted some of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games

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In the county are the well-known towns and built places Hamar, Kongsvinger, Elverum and Tynset. Hedmark is one of the less urbanized areas in Norway, as about the half of the inhabitans live in rural land. Population is mainly concentrated in the rich agricultural district adjoining Mj?sa to the southeast. The county's extensive forests supply much of Norway's timber; logs are floated down Glomma to the coast.

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County: Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count. Counts are called "earls" in post-Celtic Great Britain and Ireland - the term is from Old Norse jarl and was introduced by the Vikings - but there is no correlation between "county" and "earldom." Rather, t...

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S?r-Tr?ndelag: S?r-Tr?ndelag is a county in the area Tr?ndelag in Norway, bordering Nord-Tr?ndelag, M?re og Romsdal, Oppland and Hedmark. More than half of the population in the county lives in Trondheim....