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Hornindal

former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
Administrative Area Former Municipality Of Norway Q494049

Facts

22 properties

Identity

Instance of
former municipality of Norway
Inception
1977[12]
Official website
www.hornindal.kommune.no[16]

Location

Country
Norway[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 61.999°, 6.584°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Sogn og Fjordane[2]
Shares border with
Volda Municipality, Ørsta Municipality, Stranda Municipality, Stryn Municipality, Eid[7][8][9][10][11]

Population and size

Area
0.24 (0–191.6, n=14)[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
Population
+1200[17]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1,200 GeoNames 1,223 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +13
Capital
Grodås[6]
Demonym
horndøl, horndøl[25]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished
December 31, 2019[13]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Hornindal kommune[38]
Head of government
Anne-Britt Øen Nygård, Stig Olav Lødemel[4][5]
Historical region
Nordfjord[41]
Language used
Nynorsk[39]
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
Volda Municipality[40]
Merged into
Volda Municipality[42]
Number of households
29 (14–447, n=6)[19][20][21][22][23][24]
Office held by the head of government
mayor of Hornindal[18]
Separated from
Stryn Municipality[15]
Significant event
boundary change[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Hornindal ja ホーニンダル ja ホルニンダール ko 호르닌달 ru Хорниндал sv Hornindal kommun zh 霍寧達爾 zh-hans 霍宁达尔
🔖 Identifiers · 21
ROR ID
01re9k832
VIAF cluster ID
131455088
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n88130246
GRID ID
grid.458027.c
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Hornindal kirke.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0189h_
GNS Unique Feature ID
-263985
GeoNames ID
3151810
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Hornindal, Hornindal_-_tidligere_kommune
INaturalist place ID
40332
J9U entity ID
987007567343605171
KulturNav-ID
87d1fd46-ce07-46bf-8e5a-e37d7f5417cb
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Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Hornindal_kommune
MusicBrainz area ID
64613664-77d4-4e31-b304-998b8abd963e
Norwegian municipality number
1444
OpenStreetMap relation ID
409080
SSR place name number
328097
Scilit organization ID
48675
Topic's main category
Category:Hornindal
Who's on First ID
1159297031
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJhRFXFcqtR3jXgMTxGyh3
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 7
Hornindalsvatnet, Grodås, Hornindalsrokken, Hornindal Church, Norwegian National Road 15, Anders Svor Museum, Horndøla Bridge
Shares border with 5
Ørsta Municipality, Volda Municipality, Stranda Municipality, Stryn Municipality, Eid
← Shares border with 5
Ørsta Municipality, Volda Municipality, Stranda Municipality, Stryn Municipality, Eid
People born here 3
Frode Grodås, Anders Fannemel, Bjørn Lødemel
Capital 1
Grodås
Country 1
Norway
Historical region 1
Nordfjord
Language used 1
Nynorsk
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Sogn og Fjordane
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 1
Volda Municipality
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Merged into 1
Volda Municipality
Separated from 1
Stryn Municipality
Topic's main category 1
Category:Hornindal
← Capital of 1
Grodås
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Hornindal
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Sogn og Fjordane
← FactGrid item ID 1
Saint-Servan-sur-Mer
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Summary

Hornindal is a former municipality of Norway[1].

Related Entities

Norway

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Navn på nye kommuner. regjeringen.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Justering av grensa mellom kommunane Stryn og Hornindal. regjeringen.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Befolkning, 1. januar 2016. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . sprakradet.no. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  32. [33] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  38. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.hornindal.kommune.no/
    Separated from → Stryn Municipality
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Hornindal
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished → December 31, 2019
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #43521: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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