Tangen is a village in

Stange Municipality is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebyen. Other villages include Bekkelaget, Espa, Bottenfjellet, Ilsen ...

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,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a 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 Jan Mayen and t ...

. The village is located near the shores of the large lake

Mjøsa Mjøsa is Norway's largest lake, as well as one of the deepest lakes in Norway and in Europe. It is the fourth-deepest lake in Norway. It is located in the southern part of Norway, about north of the city of Oslo. Its main tributary is the rive ...

, about south of the village of

Stangebyen Stange or Stangebyen is the administrative centre of Stange Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located about south of the town of Hamar. The European route E6 highway runs along the east side of the village. Stange Church l ...

. The small village of Espa lies about to the south of Tangen. The village has a population (2021) of 535 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopul ...

of . The Dovrebanen railway line runs through the village, stopping at

Tangen Station Tangen Station ( no, Tangen stasjon) is a railway station located in Tangen in Stange, Norway on Dovre Line. The station was opened in 1880 with the construction of the railway between Eidsvoll and Hamar Hamar is a town in Hamar Municipality ...

. The

European route E6 European route E6 ( no, Europavei 6, sv, Europaväg 6, or simply E6) is the main north-south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and t ...

highway runs along the east side of Tangen.

Notable people

Odvar Nordli Odvar Nordli (3 November 1927 – 9 January 2018) was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. He was the 28th prime minister of Norway from 1976 to 1981 during the Cold War. Before serving as Prime Minister, Nordli served as the minister o ...

, former Prime Minister of Norway, was born and raised in Tangen.

References

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