Agdenes Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- District
- Orkdalen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1896
- Preceded by
- Ørland Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Orkland Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Selbekken
- Mayor 1995 2019
- Oddvar Indergård ( H )
- Total
- 317.29 km (122.51 sq mi)
- Land
- 296.52 km (114.49 sq mi)
- Water
- 20.77 km (8.02 sq mi) 6.5%
- Rank
- # 270 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 656.2 m (2,153 ft)
- Density
- 5.3/km (14/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −2.2%
- Demonyms
- Agdenesing, Lensvikbygg
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Trøndelag
- Capital
- Selbekken
- Population
- 1733
- Area
- 0.08812844795510305
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Indre Fosen Municipality
- Official website
- www.agdenes.kommune.no
- Image
- Norwegen - 2010-08-04 - Lensvik bei Trondheim - panoramio.jpg
- Households
- 36
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- separated from
- Ørland Municipality
- Commons category
- Agdenes
- topic's main category
- Category:Agdenes
- stated in
- Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum
- inception
- 1896-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Orkland Municipality
- language used
- Bokmål
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Orkland Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Agdenes is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The 317-square-kilometre (122 sq mi) municipality existed from 1896 until its dissolution in 2020 when it became part of Orkland Municipality. It was part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre was the village of Selbekken. Other villages in the municipality included Ingdalen, Lensvik, Vassbygda, Vernes, and Leksa. The Brekstad–Valset Ferry connected Agdenes to the town of Brekstad in Ørland Municipality on the other side of the Trondheimsfjorden.
At the time of its dissolution, the 317-square-kilometre (122 sq mi) municipality was the 270th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Agdenes Municipality is the 343rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,693. The municipality's population density is 5.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (14/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 2.2% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agdenes Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.