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Ask is the administrative centre of
Gjerdrum Gjerdrum () is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. Gjerdrum borders the municipalities of Nannestad, Nittedal, and Ullensaker, and Lillestrøm. The administrative centre of the m ...
municipality,
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 ...
. It is around 20 km north-east of
Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
. Its population is 6,890 as of 2020. Ask contains a community centre, schools, kindergartens, a training centre, shops, a pub, restaurants and hotel, according to public information.


The name

The centre is named after the old farm Ask. The farm name (Old Norse: ''Askr'') means "ash tree".


2020 landslide

In the early hours of 30 December 2020 a
quick clay Quick clay, also known as Leda clay and Champlain Sea clay in Canada, is any of several distinctively sensitive glaciomarine clays found in Canada, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Finland, the United States and other locations around the world. The clay ...
landslide Landslides, also known as landslips, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated grade (slope), slope failures, mudflows, and debris flows. Landslides occur in a variety of ...
, leaving a crater measuring 300 by 700 meters, killed at least seven people, and injured many others, destroying several buildings. As of Tuesday, 5 January 2021, Norwegian authorities stated their hopelessness of finding any more survivors. Three people were still missing since what has been remarked as "among the worst (landslides) in modern Norwegian history," which destroyed at least 9 buildings containing over 30 apartments, with at least 1,000 known evacuees evacuated out of the village of more than 6,000 residents.


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Ask Public Library
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