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Also known as Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway, Stavanger, Norway, Stavanger municipality

Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes Municipality) and the administrative center of Rogaland county. The municipality is the fourth most populous in Norway. Located on the Stavanger Peninsula in southwest Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding year as 1125, the year the Stavanger Cathedral was completed. Stavanger's core is to a large degree 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses that are protected and considered part

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Stavanger is Norway's third-largest city, located in southwest Norway and serving as the administrative center of Rogaland county. The city is notable for its well-preserved historic wooden architecture from the 18th and 19th centuries and traces its official founding to 1125, when Stavanger Cathedral was completed.

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Settlement.name: Stavanger
Settlement.native_name: Stavanger kommune
Settlement.native_name_lang: no
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.imagesize: 260px
Settlement.image_shield: Stavanger komm.svg
Settlement.image_map: NO 1103 Stavanger.svg
Settlement.shield_size: 80px
Settlement.pushpin_map: Rogaland#Norway#Europe
Settlement.pushpin_relief: 1
Settlement.nicknames: Oljebyen, The oil capital
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Stavanger
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Rogaland
Settlement.subdivision_type3: District
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Jæren

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Research organization · ROR

Type: Government
Location: Stavanger, Norway
Status: Active

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Instance of: municipality of Norway
Official name: Stavanger kommune
Demonym: siddis
Country: Norway
Located in: Rogaland
Capital: Stavanger
Population: 151669
Area: 241
Elevation: 1
Shares border with: Kvitsøy Municipality
Employees: 11000
Legal form: municipality
Official website: www.stavanger.kommune.no
Image: Vaagen-modf.jpg
Households: 16439

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twinned administrative body: Saint Petersburg
Commons category: Stavanger
topic's main category: Category:Stavanger
Commons gallery: Stavanger
category for people born here: Category:Births in Stavanger
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Stavanger
category of associated people: Category:People from Stavanger
inception: 1837-00-00
different from: Stavanger
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
language used: Nynorsk
native label: Stavanger
P8168: Helmuth Groscurth
member of: International Cities of Refuge Network
postal code: 4085
short name: Stavanger

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