Vik Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Sogn
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Vikøyri
- Mayor 2019
- Roy Egil Stadheim ( Ap )
- Total
- 833.21 km (321.70 sq mi)
- Land
- 794.91 km (306.92 sq mi)
- Water
- 38.30 km (14.79 sq mi) 4.6%
- Rank
- # 137 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,640.14 m (5,381.0 ft)
- Density
- 3.1/km (8.0/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −5.1%
- Demonyms
- Vikje (male), Vikja (female)
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- Vikje
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Vestland
- Capital
- Vikøyri
- Population
- 2532
- Area
- 0.28
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Lærdal Municipality
- Highest point
- Fresvikbreen
- Official website
- www.vik.kommune.no
- Image
- Vik Sogn og Fjordane 2009.JPG
- Households
- 81
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- Commons category
- Vik, Norway
- topic's main category
- Category:Vik, Sogn
- language used
- Nynorsk
- different from
- Vík í Mýrdal
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Encyclopedic overview
Vik is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the southern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center of Vik Municipality is the village of Vikøyri. Other villages in the municipality include Feios, Fresvik, Arnafjord, and Vangsnes.
The 833.21-square-kilometre (321.70 sq mi) municipality is the 137th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Vik Municipality is the 250th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,550. The municipality's population density is 3.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (8.0/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 5.1% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vik Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.