Aurland Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Sogn
- Established
- 1 January 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Aurlandsvangen
- Mayor 2023
- Kjell Bøe Bjørgum ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,467.69 km (566.68 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,375.77 km (531.19 sq mi)
- Water
- 91.92 km (35.49 sq mi) 6.3%
- Rank
- # 59 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,809.31 m (5,936.1 ft)
- Density
- 1.3/km (3.4/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +5%
- Demonym
- Aurlending
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- aurlending
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Vestland
- Capital
- Aurlandsvangen
- Population
- 1866
- Area
- 0.51
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Voss Municipality
- Official website
- aurland.kommune.no
- Image
- Aurlandsfjord (26674071245).jpg
- Households
- 41
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- Commons category
- Aurland
- topic's main category
- Category:Aurland
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Aurland ( Urban East Norwegian: [ˈæ̂ʉrlɑn]) is a municipality in the county of Vestland, Norway. It is located on the south side of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center is the village of Aurlandsvangen. Other villages include Bakka, Flåm, Myrdal, Undredal, and Gudvangen.
The 1,467.69-square-kilometre (566.68 sq mi) municipality is the 59th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Aurland Municipality is the 293rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,836. The municipality's population density is 1.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.4/sq mi) and its population has increased by 5% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aurland Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.