Asker is a district and former municipality in Akershus, Norway. From 2020 it is part of the larger administrative municipality Asker, Viken in Viken county together with the traditional Buskerud districts Røyken and Hurum; Asker proper constitutes the northern fourth of the municipality. Asker is part of the Greater Oslo Region. The administrative centre of the municipality was the town of Asker, which remains the administrative centre of the new larger municipality. The municipality was established as a parish in the middle ages and as a municipality on 1 January 1838 .
Since the middle ages Asker parish consisted of the later municipalities Asker and Bærum. In the 19th century Bærum became Vestre Bærum and Østre Bærum parish, and Asker and Bærum were also established as separate municipalities.
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