Midt-Telemark is a traditional district of

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...

situated in

Vestfold og Telemark Vestfold og Telemark (; ) is a county under disestablishment in Norway. The county is the southernmost one of Eastern Norway and consists of two distinct and separate traditional regions: the former counties of Telemark and (most of) Vestfol ...

county. It comprises three municipalities: Bø, Sauherad and Nome. The largest population centres in the region are Bø, Ulefoss,

Bjervamoen Bjervamoen is part of Lunde in Nome municipality, Norway. It is located west of the municipality centre Ulefoss Ulefoss is the administrative centre of Nome municipality in Telemark, Norway, located near the border of Grenland. Its population i ...

and

Gvarv Gvarv is a village in Sauherad, Telemark, Norway. Gvarv is famous for its apples, sweet cherries and sour cherries (as is the whole Sauherad municipality). Also (unusually for Norway) grapes and wine! The Norwegian painter Erik Werenskiol ...

, of which Ulefoss is the largest with 2,696 inhabitants. Bø and Sauherad municipalities were created in 1837 when the

formannskapsdistrikt () is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 Janu ...

laws came into effect. Lunde municipality was split from Bø in 1867, but merged with Holla in 1964 to form Nome municipality. When asked whether Bø, Sauherad and Nome should merge to form one municipality comprising all of

Midt-Telemark (municipality) Midt-Telemark is a municipality in the traditional and electoral district Telemark in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality was established on 1 January 2020 when the former municipalities of Bø and Sauherad combined. There ar ...

, the percentage who were positive to such a merger were 64% in Sauherad, 59% in Bø and 48% in Nome.

References

Districts of Vestfold og Telemark {{VestfoldTelemark-geo-stub