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Nøtterøy
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Nøtterøy is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The island municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution on 1 January 2018. The area is now part of Færder Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Borgheim. Other villages in Nøtterøy included Årøysund, Buerstad, Duken, Føynland, Glomstein, Hårkollen, Kjøpmannskjær, Nesbrygga, Oterbekk, Skallestad, Skjerve, Strengsdal, Tenvik, Torød, Vestskogen, and Vollen. The whole northern part of the municipality was considered to be part of the city of Tønsberg metropolitan area.
Key facts
- Kommune.name
- Nøtterøy
- Kommune.former
- yes
- Kommune.former_name
- Nøtterø herred
- Kommune.image_skyline
- Aaroysund.jpg
- Kommune.image_caption
- View of the Årøysund area
- Kommune.idnumber
- 0722
- Kommune.county
- Vestfold
- Kommune.capital
- Borgheim
- Kommune.established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Kommune.preceded
- none
- Kommune.disestablished
- 1 Jan 2018
- Kommune.succeeded
- Færder Municipality
- Kommune.demonym
- Nøttlending
- Kommune.language
- Bokmål
- Kommune.area_rank
- 410
- Kommune.area_total_km2
- 60.56
- Kommune.area_land_km2
- 60.43
- Kommune.area_water_km2
- 0.13
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Location
- Borgheim, Norway
- Status
- Inactive
GRID grid.458570.b · ISNI 0000 0004 0460 3423
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Vestfold
- Capital
- Borgheim
- Population
- 21621
- Area
- 61
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- North Sea
- Shares border with
- Sandefjord
- Official website
- www.notteroy.kommune.no
- Image
- Årøsund (14609169394) (cropped).jpg
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- inception
- 1837-00-00
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Færder Municipality
- Commons category
- Nøtterøy (former municipality)
- topic's main category
- Category:Nøtterøy
- postal code
- 3106–3163
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2017-12-31
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Nøtterøy
- replaced by
- Færder Municipality
- language used
- Bokmål
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- General information
- Name
- Coat of arms
- Churches
- Geography
- Government
- Municipal council
- Mayors
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Nøtterøy is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The island municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution on 1 January 2018. The area is now part of Færder Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Borgheim. Other villages in Nøtterøy included Årøysund, Buerstad, Duken, Føynland, Glomstein, Hårkollen, Kjøpmannskjær, Nesbrygga, Oterbekk, Skallestad, Skjerve, Strengsdal, Tenvik, Torød, Vestskogen, and Vollen. The whole northern part of the municipality was considered to be part of the city of Tønsberg metropolitan area.
The municipality was made up of nearly 200 islands, including the main island of Nøtterøy plus Veierland and Føynland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nøtterøy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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