Høyanger

Høyanger kommune

Municipality

Coat of arms

Sogn og Fjordane within
Norway

Høyanger within Sogn og Fjordane

Coordinates: 61°11′17″N 05°53′44″E / 61.18806°N 5.89556°ECoordinates: 61°11′17″N 05°53′44″E / 61.18806°N 5.89556°E

Country

Administrative centre

Høyanger

Government

• Mayor (2011)

Petter Sortland (Ap)

Area

• Total

907.94 km² (350.56 sq mi)

• Land

838.42 km² (323.72 sq mi)

• Water

69.52 km² (26.84 sq mi)

Area rank

121 in Norway

Population (2013)

• Total

4,222

• Rank

229 in Norway

• Density

5.0/km² (13/sq mi)

• Change (10 years)

-7.8 %

Demonym(s)

Høyangring

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

ISO 3166 code

NO-1416

Official language form

Nynorsk

Website

www.hoyanger.kommune.no

Data from Statistics Norway

Høyanger is a municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center is the village of Høyanger, which has 2152 inhabitants (2012). Other villages in Høyanger municipality include Austreim, Bjordal, Kyrkjebø, Lavik, Ortnevik, and Vadheim.

Høyanger is known for having one of the first industrial towns in Norway to use its steep mountains surrounding the town giving excellent conditions for producing hydroelectricity needed for electrolysis. The main product being produced in the village of Høyanger was aluminium.

The municipality of Høyanger was created on 1 January 1964 when the municipalities of Kyrkjebø and Lavik were merged.

Ladvig (later spelled Lavik) was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The municipality was created to be identical to the Ladvig parish (prestegjeld). In 1858, the eastern district of Klævold (population: 1,645) was separated from Ladvig to constitute a municipality of its own. This left Ladvig with a population of 2,042. (The name Klævold was changed to Kirkebø on 1 July 1890, and then later changed to Kyrkjebø in 1917).

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