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There are now 61 towns in Norway, as against 42 in the
year 1801. They are nearly all small. In 1891 there were 42
with less than 5000 inhabitants, 9 from 5000 to 10,000, 5 from
10,000 to 20,000, 3 from 20,000 to 50,000, and 2 above 50,000.
The growth of late years has chiefly gone on within the same
groups, whose relative size is thus still almost unaltered. The
three largest towns are Kristiania, which, on the 1st Jan. 1899,
numbered 221,255 inhabitants, Bergen with 68,000 in 1899, and
Trondhjem with 33,033 on the 1st Jan. 1897.
The population of Kristiania and Bergen together, amounts
to about half the town population of the country, which, according
to the calculation of the 1st Jan. 1897, amounted to 550,000, but
ha« since grown a little.
With a few, comparatively slight, exceptions, the Norwegian
towns lie along the coast, the tract from Fredrikshald to
Kristiansand being thickly studded with large and small towns. The
largest inland towns are the mining town of Kongsberg with about
5500, and Hamar with about 5000 inhabitants. Outside the towns,
the buildings are as a rule scattered, as the Norwegian rural
population does not live, as in several other lands, in villages, but
in solitary farms, with their cultivated land round them. Upon the
coast, however, the fishing population has formed village-like groups
of houses in several places, and these villages have also sprung up
in a few inland places, where industrial undertakings have
occasioned any considerable concentration, e. g. Lillestrømmen and Røros.
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