Jølster
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Sogn og Fjordane
- District
- Sunnfjord
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Sunnfjord Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Skei
- Mayor 2011 2019
- Oddmund Klakegg ( Sp )
- Total
- 670.87 km (259.02 sq mi)
- Land
- 619.61 km (239.23 sq mi)
- Water
- 51.26 km (19.79 sq mi) 7.6%
- Rank
- # 167 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,826.8 m (5,993 ft)
- Density
- 4.5/km (12/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +3.3%
- Demonym
- Jølstring
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- jølstring
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Sogn og Fjordane
- Capital
- Skei
- Population
- 3020
- Area
- 0.40358850903557864
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Naustdal Municipality
- Official website
- www.jolster.kommune.no
- Image
- Jølstra.JPG
- Households
- 86
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- topic's main category
- Category:Jølster
- Commons category
- Jølster
- replaced by
- Sunnfjord Municipality
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Sunnfjord Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Jølster is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The 671-square-kilometre (259 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Sunnfjord Municipality in the traditional district of Sunnfjord in Vestland county. The administrative centre was the village of Skei. Other villages in the municipality included Helgheim, Ålhus, Vassenden, and Langhaugane.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 670.87-square-kilometre (259.02 sq mi) municipality was the 167th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Jølster Municipality was the 260th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 3,047. The municipality's population density was 4.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (12/sq mi) and its population had increased by 3.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jølster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.