Karmøy Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Rogaland
- District
- Haugaland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1965
- Administrative centre
- Kopervik
- Mayor 2023
- Leiv Arne Marhaug ( H )
- Total
- 230.01 km (88.81 sq mi)
- Land
- 219.46 km (84.73 sq mi)
- Water
- 10.55 km (4.07 sq mi) 4.6%
- Rank
- # 295 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 171.58 m (562.9 ft)
- Density
- 191.3/km (495/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +4.3%
- Demonyms
- Karmøybu, Kartabu
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-1149
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- kartabu
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Rogaland
- Capital
- Kopervik
- Population
- 43990
- Area
- 2.91
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Utsira Municipality
- Official website
- www.karmoy.kommune.no
- Image
- Karmøy rådhus.jpg
- Households
- 443
Show 9 more facts
- different from
- Karmøy
- Commons category
- Karmøy
- topic's main category
- Category:Karmøy
- twinned administrative body
- Mjölby Municipality
- located in/on physical feature
- North Sea
- category for people born here
- Category:People from Karmøy
- replaces
- Torvastad Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1965-01-01
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Karmøy is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is the most populated municipality in both the traditional district of Haugaland and the Haugesund Region, a statistical metropolitan area. Karmøy Municipality was established in 1965 upon the merger of seven former municipalities. It has three towns: Kopervik on the east coast of the main island, which is the administrative centre, Åkrehamn on the west coast, and Skudeneshavn at the southern tip. There are also many notable villages including Avaldsnes, Eike, Ferkingstad, Kolnes, Norheim, Sandve, Torvastad, Veavågen, Visnes, and Vormedal.
Karmøy Municipality is Rogaland county’s third most populous municipality, after Stavanger Municipality and Sandnes Municipality. The 230.01-square-kilometre (88.81 sq mi) municipality is the 295th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Karmøy Municipality is the 26th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 43,990. The municipality's population density is 191.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (495/sq mi) and its population has increased by 4.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karmøy Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.