Flora Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Sogn og Fjordane
- District
- Sunnfjord
- Established
- 1 Jan 1964
- Preceded by
- Kinn , Florø , Bru , Eikefjord , and Vevring
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Kinn Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Florø
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Ola Teigen ( Ap )
- Total
- 693.03 km (267.58 sq mi)
- Land
- 647.48 km (249.99 sq mi)
- Water
- 45.55 km (17.59 sq mi) 6.6%
- Rank
- # 163 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,385 m (4,544 ft)
- Density
- 17.1/km (44/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +3.5%
- Demonym
- Floraværing
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- floraværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Sogn og Fjordane
- Capital
- Florø
- Population
- 11923
- Area
- 0.7076845473128511
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Askvoll Municipality
- Official website
- www.flora.kommune.no
- Households
- 140
- Significant event
- creation
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Kinn Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Flora, Norway
- Commons category
- Flora, Norway
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1964-01-01
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Kinn Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Flora is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The 693-square-kilometre (268 sq mi) municipality existed from 1964 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Kinn Municipality in the traditional district of Sunnfjord in Vestland county. The administrative centre was the town of Florø (founded in 1860). Other villages in the municipality included Eikefjord, Rognaldsvåg, Stavang, Grov, Norddalsfjord, Nyttingnes, Steinhovden, and Brandsøy.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 693-square-kilometre (268 sq mi) municipality was the 163rd largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Flora Municipality was the 99th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 11,852. The municipality's population density was 17.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (44/sq mi) and its population had increased by 3.5% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Flora Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.