Finnøy
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Rogaland
- District
- Ryfylke
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Stavanger Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Judaberg
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Henrik Halleland ( KrF )
- Total
- 104.39 km (40.31 sq mi)
- Land
- 102.90 km (39.73 sq mi)
- Water
- 1.49 km (0.58 sq mi)
- Rank
- # 375 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 513.9 m (1,686 ft)
- Density
- 30.2/km (78/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +12.9%
- Demonym
- Finnøybu
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Finnøy is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 104.39-square-kilometre (40.31 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Stavanger Municipality in the traditional district of Ryfylke. The administrative centre was the village of Judaberg.
The municipality consisted of a number of islands on the south side of the Boknafjorden, about 24 kilometres (15 mi) northeast of the city of Stavanger. The Finnøy Tunnel connects the two islands of Finnøy and Talgje to the mainland. The rest of the islands are accessible only by boat. Finnøy was an agricultural community dominated by dairy, meat, poultry, and fish farming products, with strong horticultural traditions, mainly greenhouse production of tomatoes, as well as some tourism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Finnøy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.