Meland Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Hordaland
- District
- Nordhordland
- Established
- 15 Oct 1923
- Preceded by
- Alversund Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Alver Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Frekhaug
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Øyvind Helland Oddekalv ( Ap )
- Total
- 92.58 km (35.75 sq mi)
- Land
- 87.53 km (33.80 sq mi)
- Water
- 5.05 km (1.95 sq mi) 5.5%
- Rank
- # 386 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 324.4 m (1,064 ft)
- Density
- 88.4/km (229/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +26.4%
- Demonym
- Melandsbu
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- melandsbu
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Hordaland
- Capital
- Frekhaug
- Population
- 7812
- Area
- 0.4589799999588068
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Askøy Municipality
- Official website
- www.meland.kommune.no
- Image
- Meland - Eldsfjelet og Rosslandspollen.JPG
- Households
- 52
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- Commons category
- Meland (former municipality)
- IPv6 routing prefix
- 2a00:14d8:1001:6fc::/64
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Alver Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1923-10-15
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Alver Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Meland is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The 92.58-square-kilometre (35.75 sq mi) municipality existed from 1923 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 Frekhaug. Other villages in the municipality included Hjartås, Holme, Io, Krossneset, Meland, and Rossland. The municipality was located about 30 minutes north of the city of Bergen in Western Norway.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 92.58-square-kilometre (35.75 sq mi) municipality was the 386th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Meland Municipality was the 136th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 8,187. The municipality's population density was 88.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (229/sq mi) and its population had increased by 26.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meland Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.