Nesset municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Romsdal
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Molde Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Eidsvåg
- Mayor 2007 2019
- Rolf Jonas Hurlen ( H )
- Total
- 1,046.07 km (403.89 sq mi)
- Land
- 985.58 km (380.53 sq mi)
- Water
- 60.49 km (23.36 sq mi) 5.8%
- Rank
- # 100 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,964.4 m (6,445 ft)
- Density
- 2.8/km (7.3/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −3.9%
- Demonym
- Nessetgjelding
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Molde kommune
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- nessetgjelding
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Eidsvåg
- Population
- 2970
- Area
- 0.6640606106992261
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Rauma Municipality
- Official website
- www.nesset.kommune.no
- Image
- Vistdal-Nesset.jpg
- Households
- 17
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- Commons category
- Nesset
- topic's main category
- Category:Nesset
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- language used
- Nynorsk
- merged into
- Molde Municipality
- inception
- 1837-00-00
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Molde Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Nesset is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 1,046-square-kilometre (404 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Molde Municipality in the traditional district of Romsdal. The administrative centre was the village of Eidsvåg. Other population centers included Raudsand, Boggestranda, Myklebostad, Eresfjord, and Eikesdalen.
Mardalsfossen, one of Norway's tallest waterfalls, a popular tourist attraction during the tourist season, is located in Nesset, along the shores of the lake Eikesdalsvatnet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nesset municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.