the great river Gl�ma here). The meaning of the river name R�a is unknown. There is no available interpretation of the Southern Sami name, Plassje.
The coat-of-arms is from modern times, they were adopted on 29 October 1992. The arms show an old copper symbol above two crossed mining tools in yellow on a red background.The Church of Norway has four parishes (sokn) within the municipality of R�ros. It is part of the Deanery (prosti) of Gauldal and the Diocese of Nidaros
