The county governor of

Innlandet Innlandet is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (Jevnaker Municipality and Lunner Municipality were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken ( ...

county in

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represents the central government administration in the county. The office of county governor is a government agency of the Kingdom of Norway; the title was (before 1919), then (from 1919 to 2020), and then (since 2021). Innlandet county (with its current borders) was established on 1 January 2020 after the merger of the old

Hedmark Hedmark () was a Counties of Norway, county in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar. Hedmar ...

and

Oppland Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The ...

counties. In preparation for the county merger, the government of Norway merged the offices of County Governor of Hedmark and County Governor of Oppland into one office starting on 1 January 2019. The county governor is the government's representative in the county. The governor carries out the resolutions and guidelines of the

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and government. This is done first by the county governor performing administrative tasks on behalf of the ministries. Secondly, the county governor also monitors the activities of the municipalities and is the appeal body for many types of municipal decisions.

Name

The title of the office was originally but on 1 January 2021, the title was changed to the gender-neutral .

List of county governors

Innlandet county has had the following governors:

References

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County Governor

Name

List of county governors

See also

References