Tjøme

Tjøme () is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The island municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2018. The area is now part of Færder Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Tjøme. Other villages in Tjøme included Bjørnevåg, Grimestad, Hulebakk, Ormelet, Solvang, Sundene, and Svelvik.

Key facts

Kommune.name: Tjøme
Kommune.former: yes
Kommune.former_name: Tjømø herred
Kommune.image_skyline: Tjoeme, Norway 1.jpg
Kommune.idnumber: 0723
Kommune.county: Vestfold
Kommune.capital: Tjøme
Kommune.established: 1 Jan 1838
Kommune.preceded: none
Kommune.disestablished: 1 Jan 2018
Kommune.succeeded: Færder Municipality
Kommune.demonym: Tjømling
Kommune.language: Bokmål
Kommune.coatofarms: Tjøme komm.svg
Kommune.mayor: Bente Kleppe Bjerke
Kommune.mayor_party: Ap
Kommune.mayor_as_of: 2008
Kommune.area_rank: 417

via Wikipedia infobox

~7 min read

Encyclopedic overview

11 sections

Contents

General information
Name
Coat of arms
Churches
Geography
Government
Municipal council
Mayors
See also
References
External links

At the time of its dissolution in 2017, the municipality was the 417th largest by area out of the 426 municipalities in Norway. Tjøme was the 212th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,928. The municipality's population density was and its population had increased by 9.7% over the previous 10-year period.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tjøme” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (2)

On the map

3 mapped locations

Available in 28 languages

Show 9 more

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0