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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Sunnhordland
- Established
- 1 January 1916
- Preceded by
- Finnaas Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Svortland
- Mayor 2023
- Morten Helland ( KrF )
- Total
- 246.57 km (95.20 sq mi)
- Land
- 235.51 km (90.93 sq mi)
- Water
- 11.06 km (4.27 sq mi) 4.5%
- Rank
- # 290 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 473.92 m (1,554.9 ft)
- Density
- 50.1/km (130/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +4.4%
- Demonym
- Bømling
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Bømlo (/ˈbʌmˌloʊ/) is a municipality in the southwestern part of Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Svortland. Other villages in Bømlo include Mosterhamn, Rubbestadneset, Lykling, and Langevåg. Most of the municipal residents live on the island of Bømlo, which makes up the majority of the land in the municipality.
The 246.57-square-kilometre (95.20 sq mi) municipality is the 290th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Bømlo Municipality is the 97th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 12,365. The municipality's population density is 50.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (130/sq mi) and its population has increased by 4.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bømlo Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.