Rælingen is a village and

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. It is part of the

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Romerike Romerike is a Districts of Norway, traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. It consists of the Akershus municipalities Lillestrøm, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Rælingen and Aurskog-Høland in the southern ...

. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of

Fjerdingby Fjerdingby is the municipal centre in Rælingen municipality Akershus, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic islan ...

. Rælingen was separated from the municipality of

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on 1 July 1929.

General information

Name

The name is first mentioned around 1400 ("i Ræling"). It is probably an old district name (the name of the church site is Fjerdingby). The meaning of the name is unknown.

Coat-of-arms

The

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is from modern times. They were granted on 30 April 1981. The arms show a yellow

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on a green background. It is a symbol for the local

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. A large part of the municipality is

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, which historically has mainly been used to produce

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. The pitchfork has three prongs representing the three rivers that run through the municipality: Nitelva, Leira, and

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Geography

Located between

and

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, Rælingen includes the northwestern part of lake

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. The northernmost part of the district is built and grown together with the

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area. The most important places in the municipality are Rælingen, Fjerdingby, Løvenstad, and Nordby. Large portions of the municipality are scarcely populated or uninhabited (forests). Has a mountain

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Notable people

* Stine Buer, (Norwegian Wiki) (born 1971 in Rælingen) Norwegian TV-personality, actress and comedian *

Guro Sibeko Guro Jabulisile Sibeko (born 22 June 1975) is a Norwegian novelist, non-fiction writer and activist. She was born to a Norwegian mother and South African father, a refugee from apartheid regime who had also fallen out with the ANC. She grew up i ...

(born 1975) a Norwegian novelist, non-fiction writer and activist; brought up in Rælingen * Ida Fladen, (Norwegian Wiki) (born 1986 in Rælingen) Norwegian radio and TV personality * Anders Gaasland (born 1992 in Rælingen) politician, gay rights activist *

Kristoffer Ajer Kristoffer Vassbakk Köpp Ajer (born 17 April 1998) is a Norwegian professional association football, footballer who plays as centre-back or right-back for club Brentford F.C., Brentford and the Norway national football team, Norway national te ...

(born 1998 in Rælingen) footballer who currently plays for

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Christian Sørum Christian Sandlie Sørum (born 3 December 1995) is a Norwegian beach volleyball player. He won the gold medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Beach career Sorum has been playing beach volleyball in national and international tournaments since ...

(born 1995), Norwegian beach volleyball player *

Henrik Kristoffersen Henrik Kristoffersen (born 2 July 1994) is a Norwegian FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer, FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 – Men's giant slalom, World Champion, and Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olymp ...

(born 1994), Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer, World Champion, and Olympic medalistBryhn, Rolf: Henrik Kristoffersen in

Store norske leksikon The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' (, abbreviated ''SNL'') is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. It has several subdivisions, including the Norsk biografisk leksikon. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian publishe ...

. Retrieved 24 Sep 2021 from https://snl.no/Henrik_Kristoffersen * Arne Hurlen (born 1970 in Rælingen), Norwegian musician and singer in the Norwegian band Postgirobygget

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Rælingen: * -

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, Etelä-Suomi,

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* - Munkedal,

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References

External links

* *
Municipal fact sheet
from

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