[3] Ås is the largest agricultural municipality of Akershus, and home to the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the amusement park Tusenfryd.

The name is identical with the word áss meaning "hill", "ridge" or "esker" (height in moraine landscape).

Ås is the largest agricultural municipality of Akershus: providing the region with grain, vegetables, and dairy products.

[4] The park at Norwegian University of Life Sciences is one of the largest and most completed neoclassical parka facilities in Norway.

The park contains 800 different types of shrubs and trees, a teaching field with just over 200 perennial species and a rosarium founded in 1965.

Leonardo da Vinci presented a miniature model of the bridge in 1502 that was originally designed by the Turkish sultan Bayezid II and intended to cross the Golden Horn at the Bosporos-Strait.

It was created by Norwegian painter and artist Vebjørn Sand as part of his Da Vinci project.

As of 1 January 2020, Ås municipality covers 101.3 square kilometres (39 sq mi) and has 20,652 inhabitants.