Ørskog Municipality
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former municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Sunnmøre
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Ålesund Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Sjøholt
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Knut Helge Harstad ( H )
- Total
- 132.69 km (51.23 sq mi)
- Land
- 128.24 km (49.51 sq mi)
- Water
- 3.45 km (1.33 sq mi) 2.6%
- Rank
- # 363 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,434 m (4,705 ft)
- Density
- 17/km (44/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +5%
- Demonym
- Ørskogbygdar
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- ørskogbygdar
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Sjøholt
- Population
- 2250
- Area
- 0.07275954203261717
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Sykkylven Municipality
- Official website
- www.orskog.kommune.no
- Image
- Sjoholt2-Norway-HH.jpg
- Households
- 23
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- Commons category
- Ørskog
- inception
- 1837-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- language used
- Nynorsk
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Ålesund Municipality
- merged into
- Ålesund Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Ørskog is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 133-square-kilometre (51 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Ålesund Municipality in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The administrative centre was the village of Sjøholt. The other main village was Vaksvika, about 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) south of Sjøholt. The European Route E39/E136 highway ran through the municipality, connecting the towns of Ålesund and Molde. The Rauma Group was the largest company in Ørskog in terms of turnover.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 132.69-square-kilometre (51.23 sq mi) municipality was the 363rd largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Ørskog Municipality was the 310th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 2,250. The municipality's population density was 17 inhabitants per square kilometre (44/sq mi) and its population had increased by 5% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ørskog Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.