Samnanger
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Midhordland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1907
- Preceded by
- Os Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Tysse
- Mayor 2023
- Karl Bård Kollbotn ( FrP )
- Total
- 269.06 km (103.88 sq mi)
- Land
- 257.4 km (99.4 sq mi)
- Water
- 11.66 km (4.50 sq mi) 4.3%
- Rank
- # 274 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,297.77 m (4,257.8 ft)
- Density
- 9.3/km (24/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +2.7%
- Demonym
- Samning
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Samnanger ( Urban East Norwegian: [ˈsɑ̂mnɑŋər]) is a municipality in the Midhordland region of Vestland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tysse. Other main villages in the municipality include Haga, Bjørkheim, and Ådland. The municipality is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. It surrounds the inner part of the Samnangerfjorden and the surrounding valleys. There are mountains that surround the municipality. The development of hydroelectric power plants started here in 1909.
The 269.06-square-kilometre (103.88 sq mi) municipality is the 274th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Samnanger Municipality is the 257th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,491. The municipality's population density is 9.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (24/sq mi) and its population has increased by 2.7% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samnanger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.