Fusa Municipality
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Vinony's link graph records 149 inbound references to Fusa Municipality, and connects out to tincture, Bergen and Nynorsk.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NO.
Vinony files it under 1856 establishments in Norway, Bjørnafjorden Municipality and Former municipalities of Norway.
Vinony links it to 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Hordaland
- District
- Midhordland
- Preceded by
- Os Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Bjørnafjorden Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Eikelandsosen
- Mayor 2009 2019
- Atle Kvåle ( Ap )
- Total
- 377.84 km (145.88 sq mi)
- Land
- 353.71 km (136.57 sq mi)
- Water
- 24.13 km (9.32 sq mi) 6.4%
- Rank
- # 247 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,299.1 m (4,262 ft)
- Density
- 10.2/km (26/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +1.8%
- Demonym
- Fusing
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- fusing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Hordaland
- Capital
- Eikelandsosen
- Population
- 3876
- Area
- 0.07527342955798877
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Os Municipality
- Official website
- www.fusa.kommune.no
- Image
- Gjona Lake, Norway 1.jpg
- Households
- 32
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- topic's main category
- Category:Fusa
- replaces
- Hålandsdal Municipality
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- replaced by
- Bjørnafjorden Municipality
- separated from
- Os Municipality
- Commons category
- Fusa (former municipality)
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1856-00-00
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Bjørnafjorden Municipality
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Fusa ( Urban East Norwegian: [ˈfʉ̂ːsɑ]) is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The 377.84-square-kilometre (145.88 sq mi) municipality existed from 1856 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Bjørnafjorden Municipality in the traditional district of Midhordland in Vestland county. The administrative centre was the village of Eikelandsosen. Other villages in the municipality included Fusa, Holdhus, Holmefjord, Strandvik, and Sundvor.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 377.84-square-kilometre (145.88 sq mi) municipality was the 247th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Fusa Municipality was the 235th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 3,861. The municipality's population density was 10.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (26/sq mi) and its population had increased by 1.8% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fusa Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.