Froland Municipality
Sign in to saveFroland is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Sørlandet. The administrative center is the village of Blakstad, which along with Osedalen form the main population center of the municipality. Other villages in Froland include Bøylefoss, Bøylestad, Froland, Frolands verk, Heldalsmo, Hinnebu, Hynnekleiv, Jomås, Lauvrak, Libru, Løvjomås, Mjåvatn, Mjølhus, Mykland, and Risdal.
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Vinony's link graph records 196 inbound references to Froland Municipality, and connects out to Blakstad, Southern Norway and tincture.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NO, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1850 establishments in Norway, Froland and Municipalities of Agder.
Vinony links it to 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Kommune.name
- Froland
- Kommune.idnumber
- 4214
- Kommune.image_skyline
- Krk-Froland.jpg
- Kommune.image_caption
- View of the Froland Church
- Kommune.county
- Agder
- Kommune.district
- Sørlandet
- Kommune.capital
- Blakstad
- Kommune.established
- 1850
- Kommune.preceded
- Øyestad Municipality
- Kommune.demonym
- Frolending
- Kommune.language
- Neutral
- Kommune.coatofarms
- Froland komm.svg
- Kommune.webpage
- www.froland.kommune.no
- Kommune.mayor
- Inger-Lene Håland
- Kommune.mayor_party
- Ap
- Kommune.mayor_as_of
- 2023
- Kommune.area_rank
- 176
- Kommune.area_total_km2
- 644.55
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- frolending
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Aust-Agder
- Capital
- Blakstad
- Population
- 6299
- Area
- 0.48
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Bygland
- Official website
- www.froland.kommune.no
- Image
- Nidelva ved Blakstad - post processed.jpg
- Households
- 88
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- Commons category
- Froland
- topic's main category
- Category:Froland
- separated from
- Øyestad Municipality
- inception
- 1850-00-00
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- General information
- Name
- Coat of arms
- Churches
- History
- Geography
- Government
- Municipal council
- Mayors
- Transportation
- Media
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Froland is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Sørlandet. The administrative center is the village of Blakstad, which along with Osedalen form the main population center of the municipality. Other villages in Froland include Bøylefoss, Bøylestad, Froland, Frolands verk, Heldalsmo, Hinnebu, Hynnekleiv, Jomås, Lauvrak, Libru, Løvjomås, Mjåvatn, Mjølhus, Mykland, and Risdal.
The municipality is the 176th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Froland is the 155th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 6,174. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 13.8% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Froland Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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