Orust Municipality
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municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Västra Götaland County
- Seat
- Henån
- Total
- 882.99 km (340.92 sq mi)
- Land
- 386.52 km (149.24 sq mi)
- Water
- 496.47 km (191.69 sq mi)
- Density
- 39.809/km (103.11/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Bohuslän
- Website
- www.orust.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Gothenburg and Bohus County
- Capital
- Henån
- Population
- 15363
- Area
- 496.8
- Shares border with
- Lysekil Municipality
- Employees
- 1475
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.orust.se
- Image
- Kommunhuset för Orust, i Henån, den 15 maj 2007, bild 1.jpg
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- catchphrase
- Den stora ön i väst
- twinned administrative body
- Teuva
- Commons category
- Orust Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Orust Municipality
- short name
- Orust
- different from
- Orust
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- phone number
- +46-304-33-40-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.orust.se/amnesomrade/kommunochpolitik/dialogochsynpunkter/orustforslaget.4.4b42f2fc1468a2a641a5fb7.html
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/orust_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Orust Municipality (Swedish: Orusts kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Henån, with an approximate population of 1,800.
The municipality includes Sweden's third largest island Orust and some other small adjacent islets. The year-round population of around 15,000 increases significantly in the summer due to an influx of summer vacationers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orust Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.