Fræna
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Romsdal
- Preceded by
- Akerø Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Hustadvika Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Elnesvågen
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Tove Henøen ( Sp )
- Total
- 369.80 km (142.78 sq mi)
- Land
- 361.99 km (139.77 sq mi)
- Water
- 7.81 km (3.02 sq mi) 2.1%
- Rank
- # 250 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 981.4 m (3,220 ft)
- Density
- 26.5/km (69/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +5.9%
- Demonym
- Frening
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- fræning
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Elnesvågen
- Population
- 9717
- Area
- 0.6234500359509625
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Aukra Municipality
- Official website
- www.fraena.kommune.no
- Image
- Malmefjorden.jpg
- Households
- 167
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- native label
- Fræna
- Commons category
- Fræna
- category for people born here
- Category:People from Hustadvika Municipality
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Hustadvika Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1837-00-00
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Hustadvika Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Fræna is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 370-square-kilometre (140 sq mi) municipality existed from 1840 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Hustadvika Municipality in the traditional district of Romsdal. The municipality was located on the Romsdal peninsula surrounding the Frænfjorden, the eastern shore of the Julsundet strait, and it included most of the Hustadvika area. It also included the now-abandoned Bjørnsund islands.
The main village and administrative centre in Fræna was Elnesvågen. Other villages in Fræna included Hustad, Bud, Tornes, Sylte, Malme, and Aureosen. Moxy Engineering, Hustad Marmor, and Tine Meierier are all factories located in Elnesvågen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fræna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.