Vindafjord Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Rogaland
- District
- Haugaland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1965
- Preceded by
- Sandeid , Vats , Imsland , Vikedal , and Skjold municipalities
- Administrative centre
- Ølensjøen
- Mayor 2011
- Ole Johan Vierdal ( Sp )
- Total
- 620.53 km (239.59 sq mi)
- Land
- 598.85 km (231.22 sq mi)
- Water
- 21.68 km (8.37 sq mi) 3.5%
- Rank
- # 185 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,013.75 m (3,326.0 ft)
- Density
- 14.8/km (38/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +4.5%
- Demonym
- Vindafjording
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Rogaland
- Capital
- Ølen
- Population
- 9181
- Area
- 0.24
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Kvinnherad Municipality
- Official website
- www.vindafjord.kommune.no
- Image
- Photo of Ølen - Vindafjord municipality.jpg
- Households
- 162
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- Commons category
- Vindafjord
- topic's main category
- Category:Vindafjord
- inception
- 1965-01-01
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Vindafjord is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Haugaland. Since 2005, the administrative centre of the municipality has been the village of Ølen (prior to that time it was the village of Sandeid). Other villages in the municipality include Bjoa, Imslandsjøen, Ølensvåg, Skjold, Vats, Vikebygd, and Vikedal. The municipality is centered on the Vindafjorden and Sandeidfjorden in the east and it lies north and east of the Skjoldafjorden in the west.
The 620.53-square-kilometre (239.59 sq mi) municipality is the 185th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Vindafjord Municipality is the 123rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 9,181. The municipality's population density is 14.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (38/sq mi) and its population has increased by 4.5% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vindafjord Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.