Drangedal Municipality
Sign in to saveDrangedal is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Prestestranda. Other villages in Drangedal include Bø i Tørdal, Bostrak, Gautefall, Henseid, and Neslandsvatn.
Key facts
- Kommune.name
- Drangedal
- Kommune.image_skyline
- Drangedal Prestestranda 1.JPG
- Kommune.image_caption
- View of Prestestranda
- Kommune.idnumber
- 4016
- Kommune.county
- Telemark
- Kommune.district
- Grenland
- Kommune.capital
- Prestestranda
- Kommune.established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Kommune.preceded
- none
- Kommune.demonym
- Drangedøl
- Kommune.language
- Neutral
- Kommune.coatofarms
- Drangedal_komm.svg
- Kommune.webpage
- www.drangedal.kommune.no
- Kommune.mayor
- Stina Sætre
- Kommune.mayor_party
- (Sp)
- Kommune.mayor_as_of
- 2023
- Kommune.area_rank
- 106
- Kommune.area_total_km2
- 1062.77
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- drangedøl
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Telemark
- Capital
- Prestestranda
- Population
- 4056
- Area
- 0.54
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Kragerø
- Official website
- www.drangedal.kommune.no
- Image
- Drangedal Prestestranda 1.JPG
- Households
- 105
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- Commons category
- Drangedal
- topic's main category
- Category:Drangedal
- native label
- Drangedal
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Drangedal is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Prestestranda. Other villages in Drangedal include Bø i Tørdal, Bostrak, Gautefall, Henseid, and Neslandsvatn.
The municipality is the 106th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Drangedal is the 200th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,091. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 1.2% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Drangedal Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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