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Rissa Municipality

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former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway

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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