Austbygde (also known as Austbygdi or Tinn Austbygd) is a village in
Tinn Municipality
Tinn is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional districts of Aust-Telemark and Upper Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Rjukan. Some of the villages in Tinn include Atr� ...
in
Telemark
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county,
Norway
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. The village is located at the northern end of the lake
Tinnsjå
Tinnsjå (also known as ''Tinnsjø'' or ''Tinnsjøen''; ) is one of the largest List of Norwegian Lakes, lakes in Norway measuring about . At a depth of it is the third List of lakes by depth, deepest lake in Norway and Europe. Tinnsjå is locat ...
in the lower Tessungdal valley which runs to the north from the lake. The village lies about to the east of the village of
Atrå and about to the north of the village of
Hovin.
Austbygde Church is located at the north end of the village.
The village has a population (2022) of 393 and a
population density
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of .
Name
The approved names for the village are ''Austbygde'' (primary) and ''Austbygdi'' (secondary).
Statistics Norway
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uses the name ''Tinn Austbygd'', but this is not an approved name, although it is commonly used.
References
Tinn
Villages in Telemark
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