Klæbu Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- District
- Trondheim Region
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Trondheim Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Klæbu
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Kirsti Tømmervold ( Ap )
- Total
- 186.35 km (71.95 sq mi)
- Land
- 174.80 km (67.49 sq mi)
- Water
- 11.55 km (4.46 sq mi) 6.2%
- Rank
- # 337 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 816.7 m (2,679 ft)
- Density
- 32.6/km (84/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +7.8%
- Demonym
- Klæbygg
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- klæbygg
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Trøndelag
- Capital
- Klæbu
- Population
- 6067
- Area
- 0.9325381003644859
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Melhus Municipality
- Official website
- www.klabu.kommune.no
- Image
- Selbusjoen og Vassfjellet.jpg
- Households
- 71
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- Commons category
- Klæbu
- Commons gallery
- Klæbu
- language used
- Bokmål
- merged into
- Trondheim municipality
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Trondheim municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Klæbu is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020 when it was incorporated into the neighboring Trondheim Municipality. It was located in the southern part of the Trondheim Region, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the city of Trondheim. The administrative center was the village of Klæbu. The other major village in Klæbu Municipality was Tanem.
At the time of its dissolution in 2020, the 186-square-kilometre (72 sq mi) municipality was the 337th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Klæbu Municipality was the 171st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 6,076. The municipality's population density was 32.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (84/sq mi) and its population had increased by 7.8% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Klæbu Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.