Haram Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Sunnmøre
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Ålesund Municipality
- Re established
- 1 Jan 2024
- Preceded by
- Ålesund Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Brattvåg
- Mayor 2023
- Vebjørn Krogsæter ( Sp )
- Total
- 261.19 km (100.85 sq mi)
- Land
- 254.36 km (98.21 sq mi)
- Water
- 6.83 km (2.64 sq mi) 2.6%
- Rank
- # 280 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,067.31 m (3,501.7 ft)
- Density
- 35.8/km (93/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +3%
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Encyclopedic overview
Haram is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative center is Brattvåg, the industrial center of Sunnmøre. Other important villages in the municipality include Austnes, Eidsvik, Helle, Longva, Hildrestranda, Søvik, Tennfjord, and Vatne.
The 261-square-kilometre (101 sq mi) municipality is the 280th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Haram Municipality is the 120th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 9,357. The municipality's population density is 35.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (93/sq mi) and its population has increased by 3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Haram Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.