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Gran, Norway
is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Hadeland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Jaren. Other villages in Gran include Bjoneroa, Brandbu, Egge, Innlandet, Egge, Gran (village), Gran, and Ringstad, Innlandet, Ringstad. The municipality is the 148th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Gran is the 89th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 13,568. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 0.1% over the previous 10-year period. General information The prestegjeld of Gran was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). On 1 January 1874, an unpopulated area of Gran Municipality was transferred to the neighboring Jevnaker Municipality. On 1 January 1897, the municipality was divided into two. The northern part of the mu ...
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Brandbu
Brandbu is a village in Gran Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in Hadeland, along the eastern shore of the large lake Randsfjorden, about to the northwest of the capital city of Oslo. Brandbu and its neighboring village of Jaren have grown together through conurbation and Statistics Norway has considered them as one, single urban settlement for many years. The village of Brandbu/Jaren has a population (2021) of 4,848 and a population density of . From the top of the tall mountain Brandbukampen (originally a volcano from the Permian Period), there is a wide view of Brandbu and the villages surrounding it. The village of Egge lies at the base of the mountain, about to the northwest of Brandbu. Just by the center of Brandbu lies the Brandbu lower secondary school as well as the Brandbu campus of the Hadeland upper secondary school. The nearby Nes Church is the seat of the Brandbu parish within the Church of Norway. The church is located on ...
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