Gjemnes Municipality
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Gjemnes Municipality is an active government entity located in Norway. The municipality was established on September 1, 1893. Its administrative center is Batnfjordsøra. The area covers 470.6022505349786 square units.
The population of Gjemnes is 2,740, distributed across 1,136 households. The official website for the municipality is gjemnes.kommune.no. The subject is referenced by 167 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Nordmøre
- Established
- 1 Jan 1893
- Preceded by
- Kvernes , Frei , and Øre
- Administrative centre
- Batnfjordsøra
- Mayor 2015
- Knut Sjømæling ( Sp )
- Total
- 381.63 km (147.35 sq mi)
- Land
- 371.08 km (143.27 sq mi)
- Water
- 10.55 km (4.07 sq mi) 2.8%
- Rank
- # 242 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,026.49 m (3,367.7 ft)
- Density
- 7.1/km (18/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +5.3%
- Demonym
- Gjemnesing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Location
- Batnfjordsøra, Norway
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.457996.0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- gjemnesing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Batnfjordsøra
- Population
- 2740
- Area
- 381.63
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Molde Municipality
- Official website
- www.gjemnes.kommune.no
- Image
- Batnfjorden-Gjemnes-Batnfjordsøra.jpg
- Households
- 34
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- Commons category
- Gjemnes
- topic's main category
- Category:Gjemnes
- inception
- 1893-09-01
- separated from
- Øre Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Gjemnes is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway on the Romsdal peninsula. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Batnfjordsøra, which lies along the Batnfjorden and it is a former steamship landing place. Other villages in Gjemnes include Torvikbukt, Flemma, Angvika, Gjemnes, Øre, and Osmarka.
The 382-square-kilometre (147 sq mi) municipality is the 242nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Gjemnes Municipality is the 244th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,700. The municipality's population density is 7.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (18/sq mi) and its population has increased by 5.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gjemnes Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.