Asker

Information

	Name	Asker
	Idnumber	0220
	County	Akershus
	Landscape	Viken
	Capital	Asker
	Governor	Morten Gunnar Strand ( H )
	Governor As Of	2005
	Arearank	385
	Area	101
	Arealand	97
	Areapercent	003
	Population As Of	2004
	Populationrank	11
	Population	50,651
	Populationpercent	111
	Populationdensity	523
	Populationincrease	157
	Language	Bokmål
	Lat Deg	59 lat_min=50 lat_sec=7 lon_deg=10 lon_min=26 lon_sec=6
	Utm Zone	32V utm_northing=6633966 utm_easting=0580439 geo_cat=adm2nd
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	Map	<!--Replace with County map-->
	Munwebpage	wwwaskerkommuneno

Asker is a Municipality in the County of Akershus , Norway and a Suburb of Oslo .

Main parts are Asker, Gullhella, Vollen , Vettre , Blakstad, Holmen, Hvalstad, Nesøya, Nesbru and Heggedal . Asker is a notably coastal place with many beautiful beaches, but is also a place of hills and woods. The district is known for many important businesses. It is also known for gardening. The Skaugum estate, where Crown Prince Haakon Of Norway and his family live, is situated here. The first IKEA store outside of Sweden opened in Asker in 1963 .

Principally a rural municipality, however expansion of Oslo has resulted in it becoming an affluent suburb. Thus numerous celebrities now reside in the area.

Asker is also the home of Frisk Asker Tigers , who won the Norwegian Hockey championship in 2002. Asker Skiklubb is a nationally well known sports club. It has a long history dateing back to 1889. Many of Askers famous people have been successful individuals associated with the sports club.

Asker, more notably Blakstad, was a stronghold for the Bagler s, whom contended with the Birkebeiner s during a Civil War during the Viking period.

FAMOUS RESIDENTS