Vegårshei Municipality
Sign in to saveVegårshei is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center is the village of Myra. Other villages in Vegårshei include Mo and Ubergsmoen.
Key facts
- Kommune.district
- Sørlandet
- Kommune.capital
- Myra
- Kommune.name
- Vegårshei
- Kommune.former_name
- Vegaardsheien herred
- Kommune.idnumber
- 4212
- Kommune.image_skyline
- Vegaar2.jpg
- Kommune.image_caption
- View of the lake Vegår
- Kommune.county
- Agder
- Kommune.established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Kommune.preceded
- none
- Kommune.demonym
- Vegårsheiing
- Kommune.language
- Neutral
- Kommune.coatofarms
- Vegårshei komm.svg
- Kommune.webpage
- www.vegarshei.kommune.no
- Kommune.mayor
- Kjetil Torp
- Kommune.mayor_party
- KrF
- Kommune.mayor_as_of
- 2019
- Kommune.area_rank
- 249
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- vegårsheiing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Agder
- Capital
- Myra
- Population
- 2253
- Area
- 0.06
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Åmli
- Official website
- www.vegarshei.kommune.no
- Image
- Vegaar2.jpg
- Households
- 32
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- inception
- 1837-00-00
- Commons category
- Vegårshei
- topic's main category
- Category:Vegårshei
- language used
- Nynorsk
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Name
- Coat of arms
- Culture
- Churches
- Geography
- Government
- Municipal council
- Mayors
- Economy
- Transportation
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Vegårshei is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center is the village of Myra. Other villages in Vegårshei include Mo and Ubergsmoen.
The municipality is the 249th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Vegårshei is the 272nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,143. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 7.9% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vegårshei Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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