Bjugn Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- District
- Fosen
- Preceded by
- Ørland Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Ørland Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Botngård
- Mayor 2014 2019
- Ogne Undertun ( Ap )
- Total
- 383.82 km (148.19 sq mi)
- Land
- 355.85 km (137.39 sq mi)
- Water
- 27.97 km (10.80 sq mi) 7.3%
- Rank
- # 245 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 492.5 m (1,616 ft)
- Density
- 12.8/km (33/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +8%
- Demonym
- Bjugning
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- bjugning
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Trøndelag
- Capital
- Bjugn
- Population
- 4779
- Area
- 0.16285311128303478
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Indre Fosen Municipality
- Official website
- www.bjugn.kommune.no
- Image
- Lysoysund i bjugn.JPG
- Households
- 38
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- twinned administrative body
- Piran
- Commons category
- Bjugn
- topic's main category
- Category:Bjugn
- Commons gallery
- Bjugn
- language used
- Bokmål
- inception
- 1853-00-00
- separated from
- Ørland Municipality
- merged into
- Ørland Municipality
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Ørland Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Bjugn is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1853 until its dissolution in 2020 when it was merged into Ørland Municipality. It was part of the Fosen region. The village of Botngård was the administrative centre of Bjugn Municipality. Other villages in Bjugn included Høybakken, Jøssund, Lysøysundet, Nes, Oksvoll, and Vallersund. Bjugn was on the Robek-list in 2015.
At the time of its dissolution in 2020, the 384-square-kilometre (148 sq mi) municipality was the 245th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Bjugn Municipality was the 205th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,904. The municipality's population density was 12.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (33/sq mi) and its population had increased by 8% over the last decade.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bjugn Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.