Holtålen Municipality
municipality in Trøndelag, Norway
Holtålen is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is located in the Ålen area of the village of Renbygda. Other villages in the municipality include Hessdalen, Aunegrenda, and Haltdalen.
The 1,210-square-kilometre (470 sq mi) municipality is the 89th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Holtålen Municipality is the 280th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,035. The municipality's population density is 1.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (4.4/sq mi) and its population has increased by 0.5% over the previous 10-year period.
General information
Starting in the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. As a result of this, the municipality of Holtålen was established on 1 January 1972 when the old Haltdalen Municipality (population: 778) was merged with the neighboring Ålen Municipality (population: 1,944) and together they formed the new Holtålen Municipality (bringing back the name Holtålen, the former name for the old Haltdalen Municipality). On 21 April 1989, a small unpopulated part of the neighboring Røros Municipality was transferred to Holtålen Municipality.
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