Odda Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Hordaland
- District
- Hardanger
- Established
- 1 July 1913
- Preceded by
- Ullensvang Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Ullensvang Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Odda
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Roald Aga Haug ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,615.89 km (623.90 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,475.43 km (569.67 sq mi)
- Water
- 140.46 km (54.23 sq mi) 8.7%
- Rank
- # 42 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,721.2 m (5,647 ft)
- Density
- 4.2/km (11/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −4.4%
- Demonym
- Odding
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Demonym
- oddvør
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Hordaland
- Capital
- Odda
- Population
- 6930
- Area
- 1.0155561870475855
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Kvinnherad Municipality
- Official website
- www.odda.kommune.no
- Image
- ODDA.JPG
- Households
- 126
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- twinned administrative body
- Stenungsund Municipality
- Commons category
- Odda (former municipality)
- topic's main category
- Category:Odda
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Odda
- separated from
- Ullensvang
- language used
- Bokmål
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Ullensvang Municipality
- native label
- Odda
- inception
- 1913-07-01
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Ullensvang Municipality
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Heidelberg
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Odda (pronunciation) is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The 1,615.89-square-kilometre (623.90 sq mi) municipality existed from 1913 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Ullensvang Municipality in the traditional district of Hardanger in Vestland county. The administrative centre was the town of Odda, which was also the main commercial and economic centre of the entire Hardanger region. Other villages in the municipality included Botnen, Eitrheim, Håra, Røldal, Seljestad, Skare, and Tyssedal.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 1,615.89-square-kilometre (623.90 sq mi) municipality was the 42nd largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Odda Municipality was the 157th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 6,745. The municipality's population density was 4.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (11/sq mi) and its population had decreased by 4.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Odda Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.