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Volda Municipality
Volda kommune | |
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| Volden herred (historic name) | |
 View of Volda and the Voldsfjorden | |
 Møre og Romsdal within Norway | |
 Volda within Møre og Romsdal | |
| Coordinates: 62°05′16″N 06°00′51″E / 62.08778°N 6.01417°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Møre og Romsdal |
| District | Sunnmøre |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Administrative centre | Volda |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019) | Sølvi Dimmen (Sp) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 876.85 km2 (338.55 sq mi) |
| • Land | 833.63 km2 (321.87 sq mi) |
| • Water | 43.24 km2 (16.70 sq mi) 4.9% |
| • Rank | #132 in Norway |
| Population (2023) | |
| • Total | 10,960 |
| • Rank | #105 in Norway |
| • Density | 13.1/km2 (34/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) |  +8.9% |
| Demonym | Volding[1] |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Nynorsk |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1577[3] |
| Website | Official website |
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 356 municipalities in Norway. Volda is the 105th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 10,960. The municipality's population density is 13.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (34/sq mi) and its population has increased by 8.9% over the previous 10-year period.[4][5]
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian).
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "09280: Area of land and fresh water (km²) (M)" (in Norwegian).