Lillehammer is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway.
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12 Facts About Lillehammer
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Lillehammer hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics and 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.
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On 1 January 1964, the town of Lillehammer was merged with Faberg Municipality to form a new, larger Lillehammer Municipality.
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Village of Lillehammer is located at the northern end of Norway's largest lake, Mjøsa.
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Lillehammer is known as a typical venue for winter sporting events; it was host city of the 1994 Winter Olympics, and the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics, and was part of a joint bid with applicant host city Oslo to host events part of the 2022 Winter Olympics until Oslo withdrew its bid on 1 October 2014.
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Lillehammer is home to the largest literature festival in the Nordic countries and, in 2017, was designated as a UNESCO City of Literature.
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Lillehammer is the home of the Nansen Academy - the Norwegian Humanistic Academy.
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All municipalities in Norway, including Lillehammer, are responsible for primary education, outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads.
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Municipal council of Lillehammer is made up of 47 representatives that are elected to four year terms.
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Lillehammer is situated in the lower part of the Gudbrandsdal valley, at the northern end of lake Mjøsa.
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Lillehammer has a humid continental climate, with the Scandinavian mountain chain to the west and north limiting oceanic influences.
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The current weather station Lillehammer-Sætherengen became operational in 1982; extremes are from two earlier weather stations in Lillehammer.
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