Ogre municipality
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Ogre municipality is a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Vidzeme
Vidzeme
Vidzeme is one of the historical and cultural regions of Latvia. Literally meaning "the Middle Land" it is situated in north-central Latvia north of the Daugava River...

, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

. The municipality was formed in 2002 by merging Ogre
Ogre, Latvia
Ogre is the principal town of Ogre District in Central Latvia, 36 km east of the capital Riga, situated at the confluence of the Daugava and Ogre rivers...

 town
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 and Ogresgals parish. In 2009 it absorbed Krape parish
Krape parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Krape parish :*...

, Ķeipene parish
Ķeipene parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Ķeipene parish :*...

, Laubere parish
Laubere parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Laubere parish :*...

, Madliena parish
Madliena parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Madliena parish :*...

, Mazozoli parish
Mazozoli parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Mazozoli parish :*...

, Meņģele parish
Meņģele parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Meņģele parish :*...

, Suntaži parish
Suntaži parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Suntaži parish :*...

 and Taurupe parish
Taurupe parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Taurupe parish :*...

the administrative centre being Ogre.
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