Haram Municipality
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 Haram within Møre og Romsdal |
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| Coordinates: 62°34′3″N 06°22′20″E / 62.56750°N 6.37222°ECoordinates: 62°34′3″N 06°22′20″E / 62.56750°N 6.37222°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Møre og Romsdal | ||
| District | Sunnmøre | ||
| Administrative centre | Brattvåg | ||
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| • Mayor (2007) | Bjørn Sandnes (H) | ||
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| • Total | 260.58 km2 (100.61 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 253.75 km2 (97.97 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 6.83 km2 (2.64 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 295 in Norway | ||
| Population (2013) | |||
| • Total | 9,020 | ||
| • Rank | 119 in Norway | ||
| • Density | 35.5/km2 (92/sq mi) | ||
| • Change (10 years) | +2.3 % | ||
| Demonym(s) | Harams-mann Harams-kvinne |
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| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1534 | ||
| Official language form | Nynorsk | ||
| Website | www |
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Haram is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative center is Brattvåg, the industrial center of Sunnmøre. Other important villages in the municipality include Austnes, Eidsvik, Helle, Longva, Hildrestranda, Søvik, Tennfjord, and Vatne.
Brattvåg IL is a sports club based in the municipality. Tennfjord Mannskor is a male choir from the village of Tennfjord. The Ulla Lighthouse and Hellevik Lighthouse are both located in the northwestern part of the municipality.
Haram was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The western island district of Roald was separated from Haram on 1 January 1890 to form a municipality of its own. This left 1,956 people left in Haram. On 1 January 1965, the eastern district of Haram, including the Myklebost area on Harøya island and some smaller islands to the west of there (population: 287), was separated from Haram Municipality and merged into the neighboring Sandøy Municipality to the east. Also on that date most of the municipality of Vatne (population: 2,260) to the southeast of Haram Municipality was merged into Haram Municipality. There was one other municipal boundary change on that date in 1965: the Søvik area in Borgund Municipality (population: 1,191) to the south of Haram Municipality were merged with Haram. This boundary change created a much larger municipality of Haram.
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