Askvoll Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Sunnfjord
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Askvoll
- Mayor 2017
- Ole André Klausen ( H )
- Total
- 326.24 km (125.96 sq mi)
- Land
- 312.92 km (120.82 sq mi)
- Water
- 13.32 km (5.14 sq mi) 4.1%
- Rank
- # 255 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,303.69 m (4,277.2 ft)
- Density
- 9/km (23/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −0.8%
- Demonym
- Askvolling
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Askvoll is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Askvoll. Other villages in the municipality include Holmedal, Kvammen, and Stongfjorden. The most important industries in Askvoll today are Helle Knivfabrikk (a knife factory), Bulandet Fiskeindustri (fish industry), and Sigurd Løkeland Hermetikkfabrikk (a producer of crabs).
The 326.24-square-kilometre (125.96 sq mi) municipality is the 255th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Askvoll Municipality is the 232nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,930. The municipality's population density is 9 inhabitants per square kilometre (23/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 0.8% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Askvoll Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.