Vestby Municipality
Sign in to saveVestby is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Follo traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vestby.
Key facts
- Kommune.name
- Vestby
- Kommune.idnumber
- 3216
- Kommune.county
- Akershus
- Kommune.district
- Follo
- Kommune.capital
- Vestby
- Kommune.language
- Bokmål
- Kommune.coatofarms
- Vestby komm.svg
- Kommune.demonym
- Vestbysokning
- Kommune.munwebpage
- www.vestby.kommune.no
- Kommune.mayor
- Tom Anders Ludvigsen
- Kommune.mayor_party
- Ap
- Kommune.mayor_as_of
- 2015
- Kommune.area_rank
- 367
- Kommune.area_total_km2
- 134
- Kommune.area_land_km2
- 134
- Kommune.area_water_percent
- 0.04
- Kommune.population_as_of
- 2006
- Kommune.population_rank
- 84
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- vestbysokning
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Akershus
- Capital
- Vestby
- Population
- 20167
- Area
- 0.32
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Indre Østfold Municipality
- Official website
- www.vestby.kommune.no
- Image
- Vestby stasjon TRS 070403 002.jpg
- Households
- 281
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- Commons category
- Vestby
- topic's main category
- Category:Vestby
- IPA transcription
- ˈʋɛstbyː
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Vestby
- language used
- Bokmål
- inception
- 1838-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- General information
- Name
- Coat-of-arms
- History
- Geography
- Notable residents
- International relations
- Twin towns – Sister cities
- References
- External links
Vestby is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Follo traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vestby.
==General information== ===Name=== The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Vestby farm (Old Norse: Vestbýr), since the first church was built here. The first element is vestr which means "west" and the last element is býr meaning "farm". The neighbouring farms have the names Østby ("eastern farm"), Sunnby ("southern farm"), and Nordby ("northern farm"); and they must all four be the parts of a bigger and older farm, whose name is now unknown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vestby Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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