Stranda Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Sunnmøre
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Stranda
- Mayor 2023
- Einar Arve Nordang ( H )
- Total
- 865.86 km (334.31 sq mi)
- Land
- 844.63 km (326.11 sq mi)
- Water
- 21.23 km (8.20 sq mi) 2.5%
- Rank
- # 134 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,775.6 m (5,825 ft)
- Density
- 5/km (13/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −5.8%
- Demonyms
- Strandar, Strander
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Official website
Stranda kommune
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- strandar
- Population
- 4333
- Area
- 0.6427922253921521
- Official website
- www.stranda.kommune.no
- Image
- Storfjorden from Riksvei 650.JPG
- Households
- 115
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- inception
- 1837-00-00
- Commons category
- Stranda
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Stranda is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stranda. Stranda consists of three smaller villages and one larger central village. The smaller villages are Hellesylt, Geiranger, and Liabygda. The central village, Stranda (same name as the municipality), has about 2,600 inhabitants. Stranda Municipality is known for tourist attractions such as Geirangerfjorden, Sunnylvsfjorden, and the ski area at Strandafjellet [no; nn; da].
The 866-square-kilometre (334 sq mi) municipality is the 134th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Stranda Municipality is the 196th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,348. The municipality's population density is 5 inhabitants per square kilometre (13/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 5.8% over the previous 10-year period.