Editing Skedsmo (section)

==General information==

===Name===
The name of the municipality (originally the [[parish]]) may have originally been the name for the rectory. In [[Old Norse]] the name was {{lang|non|Skeiðsmór}}. The first element is the [[genitive case]] of {{lang|non|skeið}}, a [[Grammatical gender|neuter]] [[noun]]. One possible meaning of this word, {{lang|non|skeið}}, is "a track for footraces or horseraces"; another "a farm road between fields". The last element is {{lang|non|mór}}, which in this context has been taken to mean "dry sandy plain".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40964571|title=Norsk stadnamnleksikon|date=1997|publisher=Norske samlaget|isbn=82-521-4905-7|edition=4. utgåva|location=Oslo|language=Norwegian|trans-title=Norwegian lexicon of place names|oclc=40964571}}</ref>

===Coat of arms===
The [[coat of arms]] was from modern times, granted on 4 October 1974. The arms show three silver [[horse]] heads with waving [[mane (horse)|mane]]s on a red background. The arms are [[canting arms|canting]], a reference{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} to an interpretation of the first part of the name {{lang|no|Skedsmo}}, {{lang|non|skeið}}. The arms were designed by Finn Fagerli from Lillestrøm.<ref>{{cite web|author=Norske Kommunevåpen|year=1990|title=Nye kommunevåbener i Norden|url=http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/s/skedsmo.htm|access-date=2008-12-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skedsmo.kommune.no/Om-kommunen/Om-kommunevapenet/|title=Om Kommunevåpenet|access-date=2008-12-20|publisher=Skedsmo kommune|language=no}}</ref> {{See also-text|Coats of arms of [[Coat of arms of Eid|Eid]], [[Coat of arms of Gloppen|Gloppen]], [[Coat of arms of Levanger|Levanger]], [[Coat of arms of Lyngen|Lyngen]], [[Coat of arms of Nord-Fron|Nord-Fron]], and [[Coat of arms of Ski|Ski]]}}

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|+ '''Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Skedsmo 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, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population|language=en |publisher=ssb.no |access-date=25 June 2017}}</ref>
 
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! style="background:#efefef;"|Ancestry
! style="background:#efefef;"|Number
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| {{flag|Pakistan}}||1,417
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| {{flag|Vietnam}}||1,350
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| {{flag|Poland}}||1,069
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| {{flag|Iraq}}||889
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| {{flag|Sri Lanka}}||803
|-
| {{flag|Iran}}||722
|-
| {{flag|Afghanistan}}||611
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| {{flag|Sweden}}||475
|-
| {{flag|Lithuania}}||453
|-
| {{flag|Turkey}}||409
|-
| {{flag|India}}||351
|-
| {{flag|Syria}}||347
|-
| {{flag|Russia}}||293
|-
| {{flag|Eritrea}}||283
|-
| {{flag|Denmark}}||251
|}