Stokke Municipality
Sign in to saveStokke is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution on 1 January 2017. The area is now part of Sandefjord Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Stokke. Other main villages in Stokke included Vear, Melsomvik, Storevar, and Valberg.
Key facts
- Kommune.name
- Stokke
- Kommune.former
- yes
- Kommune.image_skyline
- Fv560StokkeveienBorgeveienXE18.jpg
- Kommune.idnumber
- 0720
- Kommune.county
- Vestfold
- Kommune.district
- Vestfold
- Kommune.capital
- Stokke
- Kommune.established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Kommune.preceded
- none
- Kommune.disestablished
- 1 Jan 2017
- Kommune.succeeded
- Sandefjord Municipality
- Kommune.demonym
- Stokkesokning
- Kommune.language
- Bokmål
- Kommune.area_total_km2
- 118.36
- Kommune.area_land_km2
- 115.59
- Kommune.area_water_km2
- 2.77
- Kommune.area_water_percent
- 2.3
- Kommune.population_as_of
- 2016
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- stokkesokning
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Vestfold
- Capital
- Stokke
- Population
- 11657
- Area
- 118
- Shares border with
- Sandefjord
- Official website
- www.stokke.kommune.no
- Image
- Melsomvik,Norway (2442625529).jpg
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- inception
- 1838-01-01
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Sandefjord
- Commons category
- Stokke Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Stokke
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2016-12-31
- language used
- Bokmål
- merged into
- Sandefjord
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- General information
- Name
- Coat of arms
- Churches
- History
- Sundås Fort
- Government
- Municipal council
- Mayors
- Geography
- Nature preserves
- Demographics
- Transportation
- Recreation
- Wildlife
- Points of interest
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Stokke is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution on 1 January 2017. The area is now part of Sandefjord Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Stokke. Other main villages in Stokke included Vear, Melsomvik, Storevar, and Valberg.
Upon its dissolution, the municipality had a population of 11,657. The municipality's population density is .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stokke Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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