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Lindås Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Hordaland
- District
- Nordhordland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Alver Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Knarvik
- Mayor 2007 2019
- Astrid Aarhus Byrknes ( KrF )
- Total
- 474.99 km (183.39 sq mi)
- Land
- 456.14 km (176.12 sq mi)
- Water
- 18.85 km (7.28 sq mi) 4%
- Rank
- # 213 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 957 m (3,140 ft)
- Density
- 33.3/km (86/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +12.7%
- Demonym
- Lindåsing
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Forside - Alver kommune
Velkommen til Alver kommune. Her finn du kommunen sine tenester på nett.
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- lindåsing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Hordaland
- Capital
- Lindås
- Population
- 15607
- Area
- 0.5142774293778952
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Bergen Municipality
- Official website
- www.lindas.kommune.no
- Image
- Hindnesfjorden ved Veland.JPG
- Households
- 375
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- topic's main category
- Category:Lindås
- Commons category
- Lindås (former municipality)
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Alver Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Alver Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Lindås is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The 475-square-kilometre (183 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Alver Municipality in the traditional district of Nordhordland in Vestland county. The administrative centre was the village of Knarvik. Other villages in the municipality included Alversund, Isdalstø, Lindås, Ostereidet, and Seim. The Mongstad industrial area in the extreme northern part of Lindås Municipality had one of the largest oil refineries and largest seaports in Norway. The oil refinery at Mongstad was by far the largest employer in the municipality.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 474.99-square-kilometre (183.39 sq mi) municipality was the 213th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Lindås Municipality was the 75th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 15,812. The municipality's population density was 33.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (86/sq mi) and its population had increased by 12.7% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lindås Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.