Rissa Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Sør-Trøndelag
- District
- Fosen
- Preceded by
- Stadsbygd Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2018
- Succeeded by
- Indre Fosen Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Årnset
- Mayor 2017 2017
- Liv Darell ( Sp )
- Total
- 621.37 km (239.91 sq mi)
- Land
- 587.85 km (226.97 sq mi)
- Water
- 33.52 km (12.94 sq mi) 5.4%
- Rank
- # 179 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 623 m (2,044 ft)
- Density
- 10.7/km (28/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +4.1%
- Demonym
- Rissværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
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Encyclopedic overview
Rissa is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county in Norway in the Fosen region. The municipality existed from 1860 until its dissolution on 1 January 2018 when it became part of the newly created Indre Fosen Municipality in Trøndelag county. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Årnset. Other villages in the municipality included Askjem, Hasselvika, Husbysjøen, Rørvika, Råkvåg, Sørfjorden, and Stadsbygd.
Prior to its dissolution in 2018, the 621-square-kilometre (240 sq mi) municipality was the 179th largest by area out of the then 426 municipalities in Norway. Rissa Municipality was the 158th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 6,628. The municipality's population density was 11.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (29/sq mi) and its population had increased by 4.1% over the last decade.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rissa Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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