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{{Infobox settlement
| name                   = Hedmarken
| settlement_type        = [[Districts of Norway|District]]
| image_skyline          = View-of-Hedemarken-from-Van.jpg
| image_caption          = View of parts of Hedmarken from Vang, near [[Hamar]].
| mapframe-zoom          = 8
| seat_type              = Urban centre
| seat                   = [[Hamar]]
| area_total_km2         = 2725
| population_total       = 91015
| population_as_of       = 2015
| population_demonym     = Hemarking<br />Heimarking<br />Hedmarking<ref>{{Cite web |title=Innbyggjarnamn |url=https://sprakradet.no/stedsnavn-og-navn-pa-statsorgan/navnelister-norsk-skrivemate/innbyggjarnamn/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=[[Language Council of Norway]] |language=no}}</ref>
| population_density_km2 = auto
| subdivision_type       = Country
| subdivision_name       = [[Norway]]
| subdivision_type1      = [[Counties of Norway|County]]
| subdivision_name1      = [[Innlandet]]
| subdivision_type2      = [[Regions of Norway|Region]]
| subdivision_name2      = [[Eastern Norway|Austlandet]]
| coordinates            = {{Coord|60.8012|11.2806|region:NO-34|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
}}

'''Hedmarken'''<ref name="name">{{Cite web |title=Informasjon om stadnamn |url=https://stadnamn.kartverket.no/fakta/384450 |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=Norgeskart |publisher=[[Norwegian Mapping Authority|Kartverket]] |language=no}}</ref> ({{IPA|no-NO-03|ˈhêːdmɑrkn̩|lang}}, {{IPA|no|ˈhæ̂ɪmɑrçɑ, ˈhɛ̂m-|generic=yes|local}}; known as ''Hedemarken'' {{IPA|no|ˈhêːdəmɑrkn̩|}} until 2003)<ref name="name" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Geodataplan'' Hedmark'' 2004– 2007 |url=http://www.statkart.no/geovekst/hedmark/plan2004_2007/SKHE_Plan_2004_2007_Omforent_kap17_24.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040111032429/http://www.statkart.no/geovekst/hedmark/plan2004_2007/SKHE_Plan_2004_2007_Omforent_kap17_24.pdf |archive-date=11 January 2004 |website=statkart.no |page=6}}</ref> is a [[Districts of Norway|traditional district]] in [[Innlandet]] county in [[Eastern Norway]].

Hedmarken consists of the municipalities [[Stange Municipality|Stange]], [[Hamar Municipality|Hamar]], [[Løten Municipality|Løten]], and [[Ringsaker Municipality|Ringsaker]]. In the past, it also contained the former municipalities of [[Romedal Municipality|Romedal]], [[Vang Municipality (Hedmark)|Vang]], [[Furnes Municipality|Furnes]], and [[Nes Municipality (Hedmark)|Nes]], but those municipalities were merged into Hamar, Stange, and Ringsaker during the 20th century.<ref name="en">{{Cite SNL|Hedmarken|Hedmarken|2025-07-03|Thorsnæs|Geir|2024-11-26|editor2-first=Lars|editor2-last=Mæhlum}}</ref> Traditionally, it also included [[Gjøvik Municipality]] on the other side of the lake, but this is no longer the case.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Munch |first=Peter Andreas |url=https://archive.org/details/historiskgeogra00muncgoog |title=Historisk-geographisk beskrivelse over kongeriget Norge (Noregsveldi) i middelalderen |publisher=W. Gram |year=1849 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historiskgeogra00muncgoog/page/n43 7], 140-141}}</ref> The old county of [[Hedmark]] was named after the district of Hedmarken, but the county included several other districts as well, namely [[Østerdalen]] and [[Glåmdalen]] ([[Solør]], [[Odalen]] and [[Vinger]]).<ref name="s" />

The district is dominated by rolling agricultural terrain, hilly green mountains, and [[pine]] forests.

==Etymology==
The [[Old Norse]] form of the name was {{lang|non|Heiðmǫrk}}. The first element is {{wikt-lang|non|heiðnir}}, the name of an old [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] tribe and is related to the word {{wikt-lang|non|heið}} which means "[[moorland]]". The last element is ''{{wikt-lang|no|mǫrk}}'' which means "woodland", "borderland", or "[[March (territory)|march]]".<ref name="s">{{Cite SNL|Hedmark_-_tidligere_fylke|Hedmark (tidligere fylke)|2025-07-03|Thorsnæs|Geir|2024-11-26|editor2-first=Trond Olav|editor2-last=Svendsen}}</ref> "In Hedmarken" is translated ''på Hedmarken'' which literally means "on Hedmarken".<ref name="Verkland">{{Cite news |last=Sylfest Lomheim |author-link=Sylfest Lomheim |date=2015-08-05 |title=Dølar på Dalen |publisher=Klassekampen |page=10}}</ref>
{{See also-text|the names of [[Telemark]] and [[Finnmark]]}}

== History ==
In the early [[Viking Age]], before [[Harald Fairhair]], Hedmarken was a [[petty kingdom]], part of the [[Eidsivating]]. Kings of Hedmarken included:
* [[Halfdan Hvitbeinn]]
* [[Sigtryg Eysteinsson]]
* Eystein Eysteinsson, brother of Sigtryg
* [[Halfdan the Black]], King Harald's father, was king of half of Hedmark after defeating rulers Sigtryg and his brother, Eystein.

==References==
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[[Category:Districts of Innlandet]]
[[Category:Hamar Municipality]]
[[Category:Løten Municipality]]
[[Category:Stange Municipality]]
[[Category:Ringsaker Municipality]]