Audnedal

Audnedal Municipality
Audnedal kommune
Vest-Agder within Norway
Vest-Agder within Norway
Audnedal within Vest-Agder
Audnedal within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°22′48″N 07°22′12″E / 58.38000°N 7.37000°E / 58.38000; 7.37000
CountryNorway
CountyVest-Agder
DistrictSørlandet
Established1 Jan 1964
 • Preceded byKonsmo and Grindheim municipalities
Disestablished1 Jan 2020
 • Succeeded byLyngdal Municipality
Administrative centreKonsmo
Government
 • Mayor (2015-2019)Reidun Bakken (KrF)
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total251.45 km2 (97.09 sq mi)
 • Land236.04 km2 (91.14 sq mi)
 • Water15.41 km2 (5.95 sq mi)
 • Rank#302 in Norway
Population
 (2017)
 • Total1,765
 • Rank#341 in Norway
 • Density7.5/km2 (19/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
Increase +10.7%
DemonymAudnedøl[1]
Official language
 • Norwegian formNeutral
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1027[3]
WebsiteOfficial website

Audnedal is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway. It was located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Konsmo. Other villages in Audnedal include Byremo and Vivlemo. The municipality existed from 1964 until its dissolution in 2020 when Audnedal was merged into the neighboring municipality of Lyngdal in what is now Agder county.

Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 251-square-kilometre (97 sq mi) municipality was the 302nd largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Audnedal was the 341st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,765.[4]

  1. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  3. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  4. ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå (2017). "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 November 2017.

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