Vestnes Municipality
Sign in to savemunicipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Romsdal
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Vestnes
- Mayor 2023
- Randi Bergundhaugen ( H )
- Total
- 404.59 km (156.21 sq mi)
- Land
- 399.23 km (154.14 sq mi)
- Water
- 5.36 km (2.07 sq mi) 1.3%
- Rank
- # 238 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,467.83 m (4,815.7 ft)
- Density
- 17.7/km (46/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +8%
- Demonym
- Vestnesing
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Vestnes kommune
vestnes.kommune.no →Link to the official site · 6,553 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- vestnesing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Vestnes
- Population
- 7315
- Area
- 406.6
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Fjord Municipality
- Official website
- www.vestnes.kommune.no
- Image
- Vestnes Church, Vestnes - panoramio (269).jpg
- Households
- 96
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Vestnes
- topic's main category
- Category:Vestnes Municipality
- category for people born here
- Category:People from Vestnes
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1837-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Vestnes is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Vestnes is part of the traditional district of Romsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vestnes. Other villages in the municipality include Vikebukt, Vik, Vågstranda, Øverås, Fiksdal, Tomrefjord, and Tresfjord.
The area is known for nature and outdoor pursuits, and has a long history in ship building and maritime crafts. The village of Vestnes (Helland) dates back to early medieval times, and has 24-hour ferry and water taxi service with the town of Molde to the northeast. The ferry takes about 35-minutes each way.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vestnes Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.