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Ørsta Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Sunnmøre
- Established
- 1 Aug 1883
- Preceded by
- Volda Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Ørsta
- Mayor 2023
- Per Are Sørheim ( H )
- Total
- 661.58 km (255.44 sq mi)
- Land
- 649.64 km (250.83 sq mi)
- Water
- 11.94 km (4.61 sq mi) 1.8%
- Rank
- # 171 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,630.04 m (5,347.9 ft)
- Density
- 16.6/km (43/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +4%
- Demonym
- Ørsting
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Official name
- Ørsta
- Demonym
- ørsting
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Ørsta
- Population
- 11068
- Area
- 0.87
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Stranda Municipality
- Official website
- www.orsta.kommune.no
- Image
- Ørstafjorden.jpg
- Households
- 219
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- Commons category
- Ørsta
- topic's main category
- Category:Ørsta
- native label
- Ørsta
- separated from
- Volda Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1883-08-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Ørsta ( Norwegian pronunciation: [œrsta] ) is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region of Western Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ørsta. Other villages in the municipality include Barstadvik, Flåskjer, Follestaddalen, Hovdebygda, Liadal, Nordre Vartdal, Store-Standal, Sæbø, Trandal, Urke, Vartdal, Ytre-Standal, Åmdalen, and Årset.
The 662-square-kilometre (256 sq mi) municipality is the 171st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Ørsta Municipality is the 106th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 10,958. The municipality's population density is 16.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (43/sq mi) and its population has increased by 4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ørsta Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.