Vestby Municipality
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.
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
Article
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.