Klepp Municipality
Sign in to saveKlepp is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Jæren. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kleppe. Other villages in Klepp include Klepp stasjon, Orre, Orstad, Pollestad, Verdalen, and Voll. Klepp is a flat and open agricultural landscape. The highest point, Tinghaug, is at above sea level. There are long stretches of sand beaches along the North Sea coastline in the west.
Key facts
- Kommune.name
- Klepp
- Kommune.former_name
- Klep herred
- Kommune.image_skyline
- Orrestranda2.JPG
- Kommune.image_caption
- View of the Orrestranda beach along the Klepp coast
- Kommune.idnumber
- 1120
- Kommune.county
- Rogaland
- Kommune.district
- Jæren
- Kommune.capital
- Kleppe
- Kommune.established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Kommune.preceded
- none
- Kommune.demonym
- Kleppsbu
- Kommune.language
- Nynorsk
- Kommune.coatofarms
- Klepp komm.svg
- Kommune.webpage
- www.klepp.kommune.no
- Kommune.mayor
- Kjetil Maudal
- Kommune.mayor_party
- FrP
- Kommune.mayor_as_of
- 2023
- Kommune.area_rank
- 324
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1838
- Location
- Kleppe, Norway
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.458290.2 · ISNI 0000 0004 0460 4821
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- kleppsbu
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Rogaland
- Capital
- Kleppe
- Population
- 21444
- Area
- 0.35
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Time Municipality
- Official website
- www.klepp.kommune.no
- Image
- Bore Beach - panoramio.jpg
- Households
- 213
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- Commons category
- Klepp
- topic's main category
- Category:Klepp
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
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- Coat of arms
- Churches
- History
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- Transportation
- Economy
- Sports
- Government
- Municipal council
- Mayors
- Parliament
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Klepp is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Jæren. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kleppe. Other villages in Klepp include Klepp stasjon, Orre, Orstad, Pollestad, Verdalen, and Voll. Klepp is a flat and open agricultural landscape. The highest point, Tinghaug, is at above sea level. There are long stretches of sand beaches along the North Sea coastline in the west.
The municipality is the 324th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Klepp is the 63rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 20,615. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 13.1% over the previous 10-year period. The population around Kleppe is growing rapidly, mostly in the form of suburban single-family homes, but also in the form of some apartment blocks. There is a shopping mall in Kleppe called Jærhagen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Klepp Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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