Rauma Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Romsdal
- Established
- 1 Jan 1964
- Preceded by
- Eid , Grytten , Hen , Voll , & Veøy municipalities
- Administrative centre
- Åndalsnes
- Mayor 2019
- Yvonne Wold ( SV )
- Total
- 1,449.26 km (559.56 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,390.18 km (536.75 sq mi)
- Water
- 59.08 km (22.81 sq mi) 4.1%
- Rank
- # 61 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,998.73 m (6,557.5 ft)
- Density
- 5/km (13/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −2.1%
- Demonym
- Raumaværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Rauma is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Romsdal. The administrative centre is the town of Åndalsnes. Other settlements in Rauma include the villages of Måndalen, Innfjorden, Veblungsnes, Verma, Isfjorden, Eidsbygda, Rødven, Åfarnes, and Mittet. Most settlement in the municipality is located along the fjords and in the Romsdalen valley.
The municipality surrounds part of the southern end of Romsdalsfjorden and the Isfjorden and it also includes the Romsdalen valley and Romsdalsalpene mountains. In the lower part of the valleys and around Romsdal Fjord and Rødvenfjorden are driven agriculture with emphasis on livestock. The clothing industry has traditionally been a dominant industry in the municipality, especially in Isfjorden. In the summer, Rauma has a fairly large amount of tourist traffic. The top tourist attractions include mountain climbing/hiking, salmon fishing, Trollstigen, and the historic Rødven Stave Church.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rauma Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.