Smøla Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Nordmøre
- Established
- 1 Jan 1960
- Preceded by
- Edøy Municipality , Brattvær Municipality , and Hopen Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Hopen
- Mayor 2019
- Svein Roksvåg ( Sp )
- Total
- 271.91 km (104.99 sq mi)
- Land
- 261.10 km (100.81 sq mi)
- Water
- 10.81 km (4.17 sq mi) 4%
- Rank
- # 272 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 69.62 m (228.4 ft)
- Density
- 7.9/km (20/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −0.3%
- Demonym
- Smølværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- smølværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Hopen
- Population
- 2141
- Area
- 0.233112791370666
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Kristiansund Municipality
- Official website
- www.smola.kommune.no
- Image
- Tyrhaug Fyr.jpg
- Households
- 14
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- Commons category
- Smøla
- topic's main category
- Category:Smøla
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1960-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Smøla is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hopen, other villages include Dyrnes, Råket, and Veiholmen.
The 272-square-kilometre (105 sq mi) municipality is the 272nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Smøla Municipality is the 273rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,159. The municipality's population density is 7.9 inhabitants per square kilometre (20/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 0.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Smøla Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.