Vest-Agder
Sign in to saveVest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (fylker) in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. Its area was about . The county administration was located in its largest city, Kristiansand.
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Vest-Agder was a county in southern Norway that existed for one hundred years, from 1919 until it merged with a neighboring county in 2020 to form the larger Agder county. With roughly 182,700 residents and its administrative center in the city of Kristiansand, it represented about 3.5% of Norway's population during its final years.
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- Lindesnes Lighthouse in September 2011
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- Municipalities before 2020
- Cities
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- Villages
- Former Municipalities
- Notable residents
- See also
- References
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Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (fylker) in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. Its area was about . The county administration was located in its largest city, Kristiansand.
Vest-Agder was a major source of timber for Dutch and later English shipping from the 16th century onwards. Historically, the area exported timber, wooden products, salmon, herring, ships, and later nickel, paper, and ferrous and silica alloys. Compared to other counties of Norway, today's exports-intensive industry produces shipping and offshore equipment (National Oilwell Varco), cranes (Cargotec), ships (Umoe Mandal, Flekkefjord Slip), wind turbine equipment, nickel (Glencore), and solar industry microsilica (Elkem). A major tourist attraction is Kristiansand Dyrepark.