Radøy Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Hordaland
- District
- Nordhordland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1964
- Preceded by
- Hordabø Municipality , Sæbø Municipality , and Manger Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Alver Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Manger
- Mayor 2007 2019
- Jon Askeland ( Sp )
- Total
- 111.44 km (43.03 sq mi)
- Land
- 106.80 km (41.24 sq mi)
- Water
- 4.64 km (1.79 sq mi) 4.2%
- Rank
- # 372 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 216.7 m (711 ft)
- Density
- 45.7/km (118/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +5.5%
- Demonym
- Radværing
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- radværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Hordaland
- Capital
- Manger
- Population
- 5077
- Area
- 0.061459715730716284
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Norwegian Sea
- Shares border with
- Lindås Municipality
- Official website
- www.radoy.kommune.no
- Image
- Manger 29 To Bergen (5672350914).jpg
- Households
- 56
- Significant event
- creation
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- Commons category
- Radøy (former municipality)
- language used
- Nynorsk
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Alver Municipality
- inception
- 1964-01-01
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Alver Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Radøy is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The 111.44-square-kilometre (43.03 sq mi) municipality existed from 1964 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 Manger. Other villages in the municipality included Askeland, Austmarka, Bøvågen, Haugland, Sæbø, and Sletta. The municipality included almost all of the island of Radøy plus many small surrounding islands.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 111.44-square-kilometre (43.03 sq mi) municipality was the 372nd largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Radøy Municipality was the 199th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 5,091. The municipality's population density was 45.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (118/sq mi) and its population had increased by 5.5% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Radøy Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.