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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- [[Harams-mann / Harams-kvinne]]
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Brattvåg
- Population
- 9460
- Area
- 0.3726763835171447
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Midsund Municipality
- Official website
- haram.kommune.no
- Image
- SØVIK.JPG
- Households
- 90
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- Commons category
- Haram
- topic's main category
- Category:Haram, Norway
- diocese
- Diocese of Møre
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- language used
- Nynorsk
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Møre og Romsdal
- merged into
- Ålesund Municipality
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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.