Vanylven Municipality

Vanylven kommune
Municipality
Coat of arms Møre og Romsdal within Norway
Vanylven within Møre og Romsdal
Coordinates: 62°03′38″N 05°41′51″E / 62.06056°N 5.69750°E / 62.06056; 5.69750Coordinates: 62°03′38″N 05°41′51″E / 62.06056°N 5.69750°E / 62.06056; 5.69750
Country	Norway
County	Møre og Romsdal
District	Sunnmøre
Administrative centre	Fiskåbygd
Government
• Mayor (2003)	Jan Helgøy (KrF)
Area
• Total	385.23 km2 (148.74 sq mi)
• Land	365.41 km2 (141.09 sq mi)
• Water	19.82 km2 (7.65 sq mi)
Area rank	242 in Norway
Population (2013)
• Total	3,336
• Rank	255 in Norway
• Density	9.1/km2 (24/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	-12.7 %
Demonym(s)	Vanylving
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1511
Official language form	Nynorsk
Website	www.vanylven.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Vanylven is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Fiskåbygd. Other villages in the municipality include Sandnes, Åheim, Åram, Rovdane, Eidså, Slagnes, and Myklebost.

Vanelven was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The spelling was later changed to Vanylven. On 1 July 1918, the area around the Syvdsfjorden was separated to become the new Syvde municipality. This left Vanylven with 1,848 residents. Then on 1 January 1964, Syvde municipality and the Rovdestranda area of Rovde municipality were both merged into Vanylven Municipality. This gave Vanylven a new population of 3,897. On 1 January 2002, the mainland Åram area north of Fiskåbygd (population: 380) was transferred from Sande Municipality to Vanylven Municipality.

The municipality is named after Vanylvsfjorden (Old Norse: Vaniflir). The meaning of the first element is unknown, but the last element (-iflir) is also found in the names Sunnylven and Sykkylven and it probably means "fjord".

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