Os Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Hordaland
- District
- Midhordland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Bjørnafjorden Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Osøyro
- Mayor 2018 2019
- Terje Søviknes ( FrP )
- Total
- 139.58 km (53.89 sq mi)
- Land
- 133.51 km (51.55 sq mi)
- Water
- 6.07 km (2.34 sq mi) 4.3%
- Rank
- # 360 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 842.6 m (2,764 ft)
- Density
- 149/km (390/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +26.6%
- Demonym
- Osing
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- osing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Hordaland
- Capital
- Osøyro
- Population
- 19742
- Area
- 0.3216745473615963
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Head of government
- Terje Søviknes
- Shares border with
- Austevoll Municipality
- Official website
- www.os.hordaland.no
- Image
- Os kommune.jpg
- Households
- 247
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Bjørnafjorden Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Os, Hordaland
- Commons category
- Os, Hordaland
- language used
- Nynorsk
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Bjørnafjorden Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Os ( Nynorsk: [uːs]) is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The 139.58-square-kilometre (53.89 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Bjørnafjorden Municipality in the traditional district of Midhordland in Vestland county, just south of Norway's second-largest city, Bergen. The administrative centre was the village of Osøyro. Other villages in the municipality included Hagavik, Haljem, Syfteland, Søre Øyane, and Søvik.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 139.58-square-kilometre (53.89 sq mi) municipality was the 360th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Os Municipality was the 149th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 20,804. The municipality's population density was 149 inhabitants per square kilometre (390/sq mi) and its population had increased by 26.6% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Os Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.