Kvam Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Hardanger
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Norheimsund
- Mayor 2019
- Torgeir Næss ( Ap )
- Total
- 616.95 km (238.21 sq mi)
- Land
- 580.42 km (224.10 sq mi)
- Water
- 36.53 km (14.10 sq mi) 5.9%
- Rank
- # 187 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,334.5 m (4,378 ft)
- Density
- 13.8/km (36/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −1%
- Demonym
- Kvemming
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Nettsider for Kvam herad
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- kvemming
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Vestland
- Capital
- Norheimsund
- Population
- 8490
- Area
- 0.56
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Ullensvang Municipality
- Official website
- www.kvam.no
- Image
- Norheimsund i Kvam.JPG
- Households
- 122
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- Commons category
- Kvam
- topic's main category
- Category:Kvam
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kvam
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Kvam is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The municipality is located along the Hardangerfjorden in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Norheimsund. Other larger settlements in the municipality include Øystese, Strandebarm, Ålvik, Tørvikbygd, Omastranda, Vikedal, Vikøy, and Mundheim. Historically, it was named Vikør Municipality.
The 616.95-square-kilometre (238.21 sq mi) municipality is the 187th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Kvam Municipality is the 129th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 8,517. The municipality's population density is 13.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (36/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 1% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kvam Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.