Stordal Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Sunnmøre
- Established
- 1 Jan 1892
- Preceded by
- Stranda Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 1965
- Succeeded by
- Ørskog Municipality
- Re established
- 1 Jan 1977
- Administrative centre
- Stordal
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Eva Hove ( H )
- Total
- 247.07 km (95.39 sq mi)
- Land
- 243.63 km (94.07 sq mi)
- Water
- 3.44 km (1.33 sq mi) 1.4%
- Rank
- # 306 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,531.3 m (5,024 ft)
- Density
- 3.8/km (9.8/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −5.4%
- Demonym
- Stordaling
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- stordaling
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Stordal
- Population
- 1020
- Area
- 0.31862918046410205
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Sykkylven Municipality
- Official website
- www.stordal.kommune.no
- Image
- 2010-08-05 - Stordal am Storfjorden - panoramio (1).jpg
- Households
- 22
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- Commons category
- Stordal
- topic's main category
- Category:Stordal
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Fjord Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1977-01-01
- separated from
- Ørskog Municipality
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Fjord Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Stordal is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 247-square-kilometre (95 sq mi) municipality existed from 1892 until its dissolution in 2020 (except for a brief time from 1965-1977). The area is now part of Fjord Municipality in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The administrative centre was the village of village of Stordal. Other villages in the municipality included…
Stordal had relatively good agricultural land, and the main source of income is livestock. Stordal was home to furniture production businesses. The historic farm and museum of Ytste Skotet lies along the Storfjorden in the western part of the old municipality. Most of the municipality was located on the eastern side of the fjord.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stordal Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.