Tingvoll
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Nordmøre
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Tingvollvågen
- Mayor 2019
- Ingrid Waagen ( Sp )
- Total
- 336.81 km (130.04 sq mi)
- Land
- 321.62 km (124.18 sq mi)
- Water
- 15.19 km (5.86 sq mi) 4.5%
- Rank
- # 253 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,173.8 m (3,851 ft)
- Density
- 9/km (23/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −0.8%
- Demonym
- Tingvollgjelding
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Tingvoll is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Tingvollvågen. Other villages include Meisingset, Kvisvik, Grimstad, and Torjulvågen. The municipality encompasses a peninsula on the mainland as well as a few surrounding islands. Norwegian National Road 70 and European route E39 both run through the municipality.
The 337-square-kilometre (130 sq mi) municipality is the 253rd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Tingvoll Municipality is the 226th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 3,041. The municipality's population density is 9 inhabitants per square kilometre (23/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 0.8% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tingvoll” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.