Skodje Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Sunnmøre
- Preceded by
- Borgund Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 1965
- Succeeded by
- Ørskog Municipality
- Re established
- 1 Jan 1977
- Administrative centre
- Skodje
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Dag Olav Tennfjord ( H )
- Total
- 120.03 km (46.34 sq mi)
- Land
- 110.74 km (42.76 sq mi)
- Water
- 9.29 km (3.59 sq mi) 7.7%
- Rank
- # 365 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 806.9 m (2,647 ft)
- Density
- 39.7/km (103/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +22.1%
- Demonyms
- Skodjebygdar, Skodjebygder
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- skodjebygdar
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Skodje
- Population
- 4764
- Area
- 0.4061322472597596
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Vestnes Municipality
- Official website
- www.skodje.kommune.no
- Image
- PanoramaSkodjebroene.jpg
- Households
- 15
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- Commons category
- Skodje (former municipality)
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1977-01-01
- separated from
- Ørskog Municipality
- merged into
- Ålesund Municipality
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Ålesund Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Skodje ( pronounced [skɔʏə] or [skøʏə]) is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 120-square-kilometre (46 sq mi) municipality existed from 1849 until its dissolution in 2020 (except for a short time from 1965-1977). The area is now part of Ålesund Municipality in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The administrative centre was the village of Skodje. The other main village in the municipality was Valle. The European Route E39/E136 highway runs through the municipality, connecting it to the nearby cities of Ålesund and Molde.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 120-square-kilometre (46 sq mi) municipality was the 365th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Skodje Municipality was the 209th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 4,764. The municipality's population density was 39.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (103/sq mi) and its population had increased by 22.1% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skodje Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.