Flatanger Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- District
- Namdalen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1871
- Preceded by
- Fosnes Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Lauvsnes
- Mayor 2011
- Olav Jørgen Bjørkås ( Sp )
- Total
- 458.71 km (177.11 sq mi)
- Land
- 433.53 km (167.39 sq mi)
- Water
- 25.18 km (9.72 sq mi) 5.5%
- Rank
- # 216 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 611.49 m (2,006.2 ft)
- Density
- 2.4/km (6.2/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −0.4%
- Demonym
- Flatangring
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Flatanger is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is Lauvsnes. Other villages include Jøssund, Hasvåg, and Vik.
The 459-square-kilometre (177 sq mi) municipality is the 216th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Flatanger Municipality is the 326th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,116. The municipality's population density is 2.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (6.2/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 0.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Flatanger Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.