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Lærdal Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Sogn
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Lærdalsøyri
- Mayor 2019
- Audun Mo ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,342.52 km (518.35 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,275.43 km (492.45 sq mi)
- Water
- 67.09 km (25.90 sq mi) 5%
- Rank
- # 71 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,920.23 m (6,300.0 ft)
- Density
- 1.6/km (4.1/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −0.6%
- Demonym
- Lærdøl
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- lærdøl
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Vestland
- Capital
- Lærdalsøyri
- Population
- 2223
- Area
- 0.34
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Sogndal Municipality
- Highest point
- Høgeloft
- Official website
- www.laerdal.kommune.no
- Image
- Laerdalsoyri01.jpg
- Households
- 3
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- twinned administrative body
- Jericho
- Commons category
- Lærdal
- topic's main category
- Category:Lærdal
- Commons gallery
- Lærdal
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Lærdal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the south side of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Lærdalsøyri. The old Filefjell Kongevegen road passes through Lærdal Municipality on its way to Valdres and later to Oslo.
The 1,342.52-square-kilometre (518.35 sq mi) municipality is the 71st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway (with over half of this area consisting of mountains). Lærdal Municipality is the 272nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,188. The municipality's population density is 1.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (4.1/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 0.5% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lærdal Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.