Hov is the administrative centre of Søndre Land Municipality in

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county,

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. The village is located in the

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, along the east shore of the large

Randsfjorden Randsfjorden is Norway's fourth-largest lake with an area of . Its volume is estimated at just over , and its greatest depth is . The lake is located at an elevation of above sea level. It is located in Innlandet and Viken counties in the munic ...

where the

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s 34 and 247 meet. Hov lies about to the southwest of the town of Gjøvik. The village has a population (2021) of 2,054 and a

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of . Hov was located along the Valdresbanen railway line. The railway connected the Gjøvikbanen railway line at

Eina Eina is a village in Vestre Toten Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the Gjøvikbanen railway line, between the villages of Jaren and Raufoss. The village of Eina is located south of the municipal centre o ...

with the town of

Fagernes is a town in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the largest urban/commercial centre for the Valdres region. It is located just northwest of the village of ...

in the district of

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. The railroad had passenger traffic from 1902 to 1988 when it was closed down. Hov Church (''Hov kirke'') is a cruciform style church dating from 1781 that is located in Hov.

Notable residents

Finn Thrana Finn Thrana (8 March 1915, Søndre Land – 21 January 2006) was a Norwegian barrister and civil servant for Nasjonal Samling. He was a jurist by education, having graduated from the Royal Frederick University in 1938. From the same year he wo ...

(1958–2006), lawyer * Ola Skjølaas (1941-2006), politician *

Håvard Narum Håvard Narum (born 23 June 1944) is a Norwegian journalist and author. Biography Born in Hov, Norway, Narum has degrees in political science, history and English from the University of Oslo. He started his career in journalism at ''Oppland Arbe ...

(born 1944), journalist

References

Søndre Land Villages in Innlandet {{Innlandet-geo-stub