Flekkefjord

Flekkefjord kommune
Municipality
View of a local harbour
Coat of arms Vest-Agder within Norway
Flekkefjord within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°19′38″N 06°40′00″E / 58.32722°N 6.66667°E / 58.32722; 6.66667Coordinates: 58°19′38″N 06°40′00″E / 58.32722°N 6.66667°E / 58.32722; 6.66667
Country	Norway
County	Vest-Agder
District	Lister
Administrative centre	Flekkefjord
Government
• Mayor (2011)	Jan Sigbjørnsen (H)
Area
• Total	543.53 km2 (209.86 sq mi)
• Land	481.86 km2 (186.05 sq mi)
• Water	61.67 km2 (23.81 sq mi)
Area rank	199 in Norway
Population (2016)
• Total	9,096
• Rank	123 in Norway
• Density	18.9/km2 (49/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	2.8 %
Demonym(s)	Flekkefjæring
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1004
Official language form	Bokmål
Website	www.flekkefjord.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

 Flekkefjord  is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Flekkefjord. The villages of Sira, Gyland, Rasvåg, Kirkehavn, and Åna-Sira are located in Flekkefjord.

Flekkefjord is the westernmost municipality of the geographical region of Sørlandet. Flekkefjord is approximately midway between the cities of Kristiansand and Stavanger, located along European route E39 and the Sørlandet Line.

The small town of Flekkefjord was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). In 1942, a part of the municipality of Nes (population: 377) was transferred to the town of Flekkefjord. On 1 January 1965, there was a major municipal merger due to the work of the Schei Committee. On that date, the rural municipalities of Bakke (except the Øksendal area), Gyland, Hidra, and Nes were merged with the town of Flekkefjord, creating a new, much larger municipality of Flekkefjord with about 8,800 people. On 1 January 1987, the Virak and Espetveit areas of northern Flekkefjord (population: 41) were transferred to Sirdal municipality.