Editing Øvre Eiker (section)

==General information==
===Name===
The [[Old Norse]] form of the name was ''Eikjar''. The name is the [[plural]] form of ''eiki'' which means "[[oak]] wood". The meaning of ''Øvre Eiker'' is "(the) upper (part of) Eiker". (The municipality of Eiker was divided in 1885.) {{See also|Nedre Eiker}}

===Coat-of-arms===
The [[Coat of arms|coat-of-arms]] is from modern times.  They were granted on 24 October 1981.  The arms show three silver oak [[leaf|leaves]] and two [[acorn]]s on a blue background.  The oak is a [[canting arms|canting element]], since ''Eik'' means oak in the [[Norwegian language]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Norske Kommunevåpen|year=1990|title=Nye kommunevåbener i Norden|url=http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/o/ovreeike.htm|accessdate=2009-01-10}}</ref>

{{See also-text|Coats of arms of [[Coat of arms of Eigersund|Eigersund]]|[[Coat of arms of Nedre Eiker|Nedre Eiker]]|[[Coat of arms of Songdalen|Songdalen]]|[[Coat of arms of Tingvoll|Tingvoll]]}}

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|+ '''Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Øvre Eiker  by country of origin in 2017'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/selectvarval/Define.asp?subjectcode=&ProductId=&MainTable=FolkInnvkatLand&nvl=&PLanguage=1&nyTmpVar=true&CMSSubjectArea=befolkning&KortNavnWeb=innvbef&StatVariant=&checked=true |title=Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents |publisher=ssb.no |accessdate=29 July 2017|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702101705/https://www.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/selectvarval/Define.asp?subjectcode=&ProductId=&MainTable=FolkInnvkatLand&nvl=&PLanguage=1&nyTmpVar=true&CMSSubjectArea=befolkning&KortNavnWeb=innvbef&StatVariant=&checked=true |archivedate= 2 July 2015 }}</ref>
 
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! style="background:#efefef;"|Ancestry
! style="background:#efefef;"|Number
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| {{flag|Poland}}||611
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| {{flag|Lithuania}}||267
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| {{flag|Afghanistan}}||110
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| {{flag|Germany}}||101
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| {{flag|Iceland}}||96
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| {{flag|Denmark}}||87
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| {{flag|Thailand}}||84
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| {{flag|Eritrea}}||75
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| {{flag|Iraq}}||70
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| {{flag|Turkey}}||67
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[[File:Övre Eiker raadhus IMG 2719.JPG|250px|thumb|Øvre Eiker Townhall at Hokksund]]