Tysnes Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Sunnhordland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Uggdal
- Mayor 2023
- Synnøve Bakke ( Ap )
- Total
- 255.12 km (98.50 sq mi)
- Land
- 245.19 km (94.67 sq mi)
- Water
- 9.93 km (3.83 sq mi) 3.9%
- Rank
- # 284 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 752.09 m (2,467.5 ft)
- Density
- 11.7/km (30/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +6.4%
- Demonym
- Tysnesing
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Tysnes ( Urban East Norwegian: [ˈtŷːsneːs]) is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland. The administrative centre is the village of Uggdal. Other population centres in Tysnes include the villages of Våge and Onarheim. The island municipality is located in a group of islands near the mouth of the Hardangerfjorden. The majority of the municipal population lives on the island of Tysnesøya, the largest island in the municipality.
The 255.12-square-kilometre (98.50 sq mi) municipality is the 284th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Tysnes Municipality is the 229th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,986. The municipality's population density is 11.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (30/sq mi) and its population has increased by 6.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tysnes Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.