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Volda Municipality

municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Key facts

Country: Norway
County: Møre og Romsdal
District: Sunnmøre
Established: 1 Jan 1838
Created as: Formannskapsdistrikt
Administrative centre: Volda
Mayor 2019: Sølvi Dimmen ( Sp )
Total: 876.87 km (338.56 sq mi)
Land: 833.63 km (321.87 sq mi)
Water: 43.24 km (16.70 sq mi) 4.9%
Rank: # 132 in Norway
Highest elevation: 1,700.32 m (5,578.5 ft)
Density: 12.7/km (33/sq mi)
Change 10 years: +9.5%
Demonym: Volding
Norwegian form: Nynorsk
Time zone: UTC+01:00 ( CET )
Summer dst: UTC+02:00 ( CEST )

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Volda is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Volda. Other villages in the municipality include Dravlaus, Fyrde, Straumshamn, Leira, Bjørke, and Grodås. The municipality is located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of the town of Ålesund.

The 877-square-kilometre (339 sq mi) municipality is the 132nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Volda Municipality is the 104th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 11,093. The municipality's population density is 12.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (33/sq mi) and its population has increased by 9.5% over the previous 10-year period.