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Stord Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Sunnhordland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Leirvik
- Mayor 2023
- Sigbjørn Framnes ( FrP )
- Total
- 143.72 km (55.49 sq mi)
- Land
- 137.45 km (53.07 sq mi)
- Water
- 6.27 km (2.42 sq mi) 4.4%
- Rank
- # 317 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 749.25 m (2,458.2 ft)
- Density
- 134.6/km (349/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +4.7%
- Demonyms
- Stordabu / Stording
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Stord is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland. Stord Municipality is sometimes called "Norway in miniature" since it has such a variety of landscapes: coastline, fjords, forests, agricultural land, and mountain areas. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Leirvik, which is also the largest town in the municipality and the whole region of Sunnhordland. Leirvik was declared a town in 1997. Other population centres in the municipality include the large village of Sagvåg and the smaller villages of Litlabø and Grov.
The 143.72-square-kilometre (55.49 sq mi) municipality is the 317th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Stord Municipality is the 70th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 19,350. The municipality's population density is 134.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (349/sq mi) and its population has increased by 4.7% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stord Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.