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Risør Municipality

municipality in Agder, Norway
Organization municipality_of_norway Q90595

Facts

26 properties
Instance of
municipality of Norway, organization[5]
Inception
1837[16]
Country
Norway[3]
Official website
www.risor.kommune.no[19]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 58.725°, 9.230°
Area
0.14 (0–584.7, n=26)[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]
Capital
Risør[6]
Coat of arms
coat of arms of Risør[14]
Demonym
risøring, risøring[37]
Employees
+1037[28]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Risør kommune
Head of government
Per Kristian Lunden[4]
Highest point
Espehaugen[17]
Industry
general public administration activities[15]
Language used
Bokmål, Nynorsk
Legal form
kommune[30]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Aust-Agder, Agder[2]
Main regulatory text
Act relating to municipalities and county authorities[12]
Number of households
227 (162–3.2k, n=6)[31][32][33][34][35][36]
Office held by head of government
mayor of Risør[29]
Official language
Bokmål[7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory
Population
6.7k (6.7k–6.9k, n=8)[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]
Shares border with
Tvedestrand Municipality, Vegårshei Municipality, Gjerstad, Kragerø[8][9][10][11]
Show all 26 facts +2
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change, boundary change, boundary change[18]
Twinned administrative body
Höfn[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Risør Municipality ar ريسور da Risør Kommune de Risør fa ریسور he ריסור ja リーセル ja リーソー ro Comuna Risør ru Рисёр sv Risør kommune sv Risörs kommun sv Risørs kommun uk Рісер zh 里瑟爾 zh-hans 里瑟尔
🔖 Identifiers · 28
VIAF cluster ID
126327243
GND ID
7559863-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Risør Krantoppen august 2017 (1).jpg ↗
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q90595
Facebook username
risorkommune
FactGrid item ID
Wikidata item
Freebase ID
/m/01890v
GeoNames ID
6453397
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6453397 GND (DNB) 3141747 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
risor
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0473111
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Risør
INaturalist place ID
40063
Show all 28 identifiers +16
Instagram username
risorkommune
KulturNav-ID
39ce41d3-c8db-4a2a-8a06-96af70c14288
Lex ID
Risør
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Risør_kommune
Museum-digital place ID
43817
MusicBrainz area ID
455bfa0a-64cf-4e5f-9bc3-1e8810c4c015
NE.se ID
risor
Norwegian municipality number
0901, 4201
Norwegian organisation number
964977402
OpenStreetMap relation ID
406025
Quora topic ID
Risør
SSR place name number
692267
Topic's main category
Category:Risør
Who's on First ID
1159296923
YouTube channel ID
UCJ2vWAF4HlGXOnc4SoCXi6Q
YouTube handle
risrkommune9732

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 15
Akland, Risør, Søndeled, Frydendal Church, Moen, Risør Church, Søndeled Church, Hødnebø +7 more
People born here 9
Erik Mykland, Christian Jensen Lofthuus, Victor D. Norman, Nikolai Prebensen, Per Sunderland, Rolf M. Aagaard, Christian Sommer Kindt, Hans Fredrik Jacobsen +1 more
Shares border with 4
Kragerø, Gjerstad, Tvedestrand Municipality, Vegårshei Municipality
← Shares border with 4
Kragerø, Gjerstad, Tvedestrand Municipality, Vegårshei Municipality
Language used 2
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Aust-Agder, Agder
People who died here 2
Magne Havnå, Anders Porsanger
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Aust-Agder, Agder
Capital 1
Risør
Country 1
Norway
Instance of 1
municipality of Norway
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
Topic's main category 1
Category:Risør
Twinned administrative body 1
Höfn
← Capital of 1
Risør
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Risør
← FactGrid item ID 1
Rausdorf
← Headquarters location 1
Aust Agder Blad
← Manufacturer 1
Deutschland
← Place of publication 1
Folketanken
← Twinned administrative body 1
Höfn
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Summary

Risør Municipality is a municipality of Norway[1].

Related Entities

Norway WikiProject Govdirectory

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

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  16. [17] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  27. [28] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  36. [37] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [39] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · Ajarmund · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Legal form → kommune
    Norwegian organisation number → 964977402
    Official language → Bokmål
    Employees → {'amount': '+1037'}
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||7 */ kommuner ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/386bb0bd7fa|details]])"
  2. 18d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia title → Risør Municipality
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bar', 'bg', 'bpy', 'ca', 'ceb', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu'
    Sitelink count → 46
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Demonym, source for demonym from Store norske leksikon ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot 2|OKA bot task 2]])"
  3. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Language used → Bokmål, Nynorsk
    Capital → Risør
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Aust-Agder, Agder
    Official website → https://www.risor.kommune.no
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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