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Herøy Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Sunnmøre
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Fosnavåg
- Mayor 2023
- Tine Storøy ( H )
- Total
- 119.53 km (46.15 sq mi)
- Land
- 118.03 km (45.57 sq mi)
- Water
- 1.5 km (0.58 sq mi) 1.3%
- Rank
- # 321 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 660.19 m (2,166.0 ft)
- Density
- 75/km (190/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +1.4%
- Demonym
- Herøyværing
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- herøyværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Fosnavåg
- Population
- 9003
- Area
- 0.16
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Volda Municipality
- Official website
- www.heroy.kommune.no
- Image
- Bergsoy Heroy.jpg
- Households
- 197
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- Commons category
- Herøy, Møre og Romsdal
- topic's main category
- Category:Herøy, Møre og Romsdal
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1837-00-00
- P12749
- Claude-Oliver Rudolph
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Encyclopedic overview
Herøy is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is the town of Fosnavåg on the island of Bergsøya. Other settlements in Herøy include the villages of Leikong, Kvalsund, and Moltustranda. The industrial area of Eggesbønes is located south of Fosnavåg on the same island. The Runde Environmental Centre is located in the northern part of the municipality on Runde island.
The 119.53-square-kilometre (46.15 sq mi) municipality is the 321st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Herøy Municipality is the 123rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 8,968. The municipality's population density is 75 inhabitants per square kilometre (190/sq mi) and its population has increased by 1.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Herøy Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.