Editing Modum (section)

==General information==
===Name===
The municipality (originally the [[parish]]) is named after the old ''Modum'' farm ([[Old Norse]]: ''Móðheimr''), since the first church was built here.  The first element is ''móða'' which means "[[river]]" (here the [[Drammenselva]] river) and the last element is ''heimr'' which means "[[home]]", "[[wikt:homestead|homestead]]", or "[[farm]]". The name of the farm was later changed to ''[[Buskerud]]''.

===Coat-of-arms===
The [[Coat of arms|coat-of-arms]] is from modern times.  They were granted on 15 March 1985.  The arms show three wavy silver lines “[[Division of the field|party per bend sinister]]” on a blue background.  They represent the three main rivers in the municipality: [[Drammenselva]], [[Snarumselva]], and [[Simoa]]  and the colour [[blue]] represents [[Blaafarveværket]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Norske Kommunevåpen|date=1990|title=Nye kommunevåbener i Norden|url=http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/m/modum.htm|access-date=2009-01-10}}</ref>

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|+ '''Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Modum 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 |access-date=29 July 2017|url-status = dead|archive-url=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 |archive-date= 2 July 2015 }}</ref>
 
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! style="background:#efefef;"|Ancestry
! style="background:#efefef;"|Number
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| {{flag|Poland}}||316
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| {{flag|Kosovo}}||98
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| {{flag|Lithuania}}||87
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| {{flag|Iraq}}||78
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| {{flag|Somalia}}||76
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| {{flag|Eritrea}}||71
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| {{flag|Germany}}||71
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| {{flag|Denmark}}||70
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| {{flag|Syria}}||52
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| {{flag|Sweden}}||48
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