RÃ¦lingen

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RÃ¦lingen

Rælingen is a village and municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Akershus

Akershus

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and ?stfold; it has also a short border with Sweden . Akershus is the second largest county by population after Oslo, with more than half a million inhabitants....
county

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. It is part of the traditional region

Districts of Norway

Norway is divided into a number of districts. Many districts have deep historical roots, and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties of Norway and municipalities of Norway....
of Romerike

Romerike

Romerike is a Districts of Norway located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. It consists of the Akershus municipalities Fet, L?renskog, Nittedal, R?lingen, Skedsmo, S?rum and Aurskog-H?land in the southern end , and Ullensaker, Gjerdrum, Nannestad, Nes, Akershus, Eidsvoll and Hurdal in the northern end ....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fjerdingby. Rælingen was separated from the municipality of Fet

FET

FET can mean:*Falkirk Environment Trust*Family Effectiveness Training*Fast Expression Templates*Federation of Environmental Technologists*Mazda F engine#FET, a Mazda piston engine...
on 1 July 1929.

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

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Rælingen is a village and municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Akershus

Akershus

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Districts of Norway

Romerike

FET

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 coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
is from modern times. They were granted on 30 April 1981. The arms show a yellow pitchfork

Pitchfork

A pitchfork is an agricultural tool with a long handle and long, thin, widely separated pointed tines used to lift and pitch loose material, such as hay, leaf, grapes, dung or other agricultural materials....
on a green background. It is a symbol for the local agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
. A large part of the municipality is lowland

Lowland

In physical geography, a lowland is any broad expanse of land with a general low level. The term is thus applied to the landward portion of the upward slope from oceanic depths to continental highlands, to a region of depression in the interior of a mountainous region, to a plain of denudation, or to any region in contrast to a highland ....
, which historically has mainly been used to produce hay

Hay

Hay is a generic term for Poaceae or legumes that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for grazing animals like cattle, horses, domestic goat, and sheep....
. The pitchfork has three prongs representing the three rivers that run through the municipality: Nitelva, Leira, and Glomma

Glomma

Glomma, also known as Gl?ma is the longest and largest river in Norway, 598 kilometers long. Its drainage basin covers fully 13% of Norway's area, all in the Southern part of Norway....
.

Geography

Located between Fet

FET

Lørenskog

is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of L?renskog....
, Rælingen includes the northwestern part of lake Øyeren

Øyeren

?yeren is a lake in the Glomma river watershed, southeast of Lillestr?m. It is located within the municipalities of Enebakk, Skedsmo, Fet and R?lingen in Akershus county and Spydeberg and Tr?gstad municipalities in ?stfold county....
. The northernmost part of the district is built and grown together with the Lillestrøm

Lillestrøm

is an Unincorporated area city in the municipality of Skedsmo, Akershus, Norway. The municipal administration is located in Lillestr?m.'Facts:' ...
area.

The most important places in the municipality are Rælingen, Fjerdingby, Løvenstad, and Nordby. Large portions of the municipality are scarcily populated or uninhabited.

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
with Rælingen: - Kirkkonummi

Kirkkonummi

Kirkkonummi is a Municipalities of Finland of inhabitants in southern Finland. The literal meaning of the words "Kirkkonummi" and "Kyrksl?tt" in English language is "church moor"....
, Etelä-Suomi

Southern Finland

The Province of Southern Finland is a Provinces of Finland of Finland. It borders the provinces of Western Finland and Eastern Finland. It also borders the Gulf of Finland and Russia....
, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
- Munkedal

Munkedal Municipality

Munkedal Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in V?stra G?taland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Munkedal....
, Västra Götaland County

Västra Götaland County

V?stra G?taland County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 Municipalities of Sweden ....
, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....

External links

from Statistics Norway
Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway is the Norway statistics bureau. It was established in 1876.Relying on a staff of about 1000, Statistics Norway releases more than 800 Norwegian statistical publications every year on its web site....