Hitra Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- District
- Fosen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Fillan
- Mayor 2023
- John Lernes ( Ap )
- Total
- 755.89 km (291.85 sq mi)
- Land
- 715.27 km (276.17 sq mi)
- Water
- 40.62 km (15.68 sq mi) 5.4%
- Rank
- # 149 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 526.09 m (1,726.0 ft)
- Density
- 7/km (18/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +17.7%
- Demonym
- Hitterværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- hitterværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Trøndelag
- Capital
- Fillan
- Population
- 5568
- Area
- 0.43
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Heim Municipality
- Official website
- www.hitra.kommune.no
- Image
- Hopsoe.jpg
- Households
- 126
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- Commons category
- Hitra
- topic's main category
- Category:Hitra
- located in/on physical feature
- Norwegian Sea
- Commons gallery
- Hitra
- language used
- Nynorsk
- different from
- Chytra
- inception
- 1964-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Hitra is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality covers the island of Hitra and hundreds of smaller islands, islets, and skerries as well as an area on the mainland of Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fillan. Other villages include Andersskogan, Ansnes, Forsnes, Hestvika, Knarrlaget, Kvenvær, Melandsjøen, Nordbotn, Sandstad, and Ulvan.
The 756-square-kilometre (292 sq mi) municipality is the 149th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Hitra Municipality is the 178th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 5,323. The municipality's population density is 7 inhabitants per square kilometre (18/sq mi) and its population has increased by 17.7% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hitra Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.