Ørland
Municipality in Trøndelag, Norway / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ørland is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. Ørland is located at the southwestern tip of the Fosen peninsula at the northern shore of the mouth of Trondheimsfjord where the Stjørnfjorden arm begins. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bjugn. Other larger settlements in Ørland include Brekstad (which declared itself to be a town in 2005), Uthaug, Opphaug, Ottersbo, Høybakken, Jøssund, Lysøysundet, Nes, Oksvoll, and Vallersund.
Ørland Municipality
Ørland kommune | |
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Ørlandet herred (historic name) | |
Coordinates: 63°47′N 09°48′E | |
Country | Norway |
County | Trøndelag |
District | Fosen |
Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
• Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
Administrative centre | Bjugn |
Government | |
• Mayor (2023) | Hallgeir Grøntvedt (Sp) |
Area | |
• Total | 457.14 km2 (176.50 sq mi) |
• Land | 429.08 km2 (165.67 sq mi) |
• Water | 28.05 km2 (10.83 sq mi) 6.1% |
• Rank | #220 in Norway |
Population (2023) | |
• Total | 10,472 |
• Rank | #110 in Norway |
• Density | 24.4/km2 (63/sq mi) |
• Change (10 years) | +6.6% |
Demonym | Ørlending[1] |
Official language | |
• Norwegian form | Bokmål |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
ISO 3166 code | NO-5057[3] |
Website | Official website |
The 457-square-kilometre (176 sq mi) municipality is the 220th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Ørland is the 110th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 10,472. The municipality's population density is 24.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (63/sq mi) and its population has increased by 6.6% over the previous 10-year period.[4][5]