Sveio Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Haugalandet
- Preceded by
- Fjelberg Municipality and Finnaas Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Sveio
- Mayor 2023
- André Mundal Haukås ( H )
- Total
- 246.15 km (95.04 sq mi)
- Land
- 224.49 km (86.68 sq mi)
- Water
- 21.66 km (8.36 sq mi) 8.8%
- Rank
- # 291 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 431.85 m (1,416.8 ft)
- Density
- 23.4/km (61/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +5.1%
- Demonym
- Sveibu
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-4612
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Encyclopedic overview
Sveio is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sveio. Other villages in the municipality include Auklandshamn, Førde, Våga, and Valevåg. Sveio Municipality is a border district that is sometimes considered to be located in the traditional district of Haugalandet since it is located on the Haugalandet peninsula, but it is also considered to be in the traditional district of Sunnhordland since it is located in southern Vestland county.
The 246.15-square-kilometre (95.04 sq mi) municipality is the 291st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Sveio Municipality is the 167th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 5,752. The municipality's population density is 23.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (61/sq mi) and its population has increased by 5.1% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sveio Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.