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Meland Municipality

former municipality in Hordaland, Norway
AdministrativeArea former_municipality_of_norway Q488392

Facts

23 properties
Instance of
former municipality of Norway
Inception
October 15, 1923[10]
Country
Norway[2]
Official website
www.meland.kommune.no[14]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 60.564°, 5.119°
Area
0.46 (0–130.5, n=14)[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]
Capital
Frekhaug[5]
Demonym
melandsbu, melandsbu[26]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
December 31, 2019[11]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Meland kommune[41]
Head of government
Nils Marton Aadland, Øyvind Helland Oddekalv[3][4]
IPv6 routing prefix
2a00:14d8:1001:6fc::/64, 2a00:14d8:46ef::/48[43][44]
Language used
Nynorsk[42]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Hordaland[1]
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
Alver Municipality[45]
Number of households
52 (52–3.1k, n=6)[20][21][22][23][24][25]
Office held by head of government
mayor of Meland[16]
Population
+7812[15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 7,812 GeoNames 6,478 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Replaced by
Alver Municipality[19]
Replaces
Hamre Municipality, Herdla[17][18]
Separated from
Alversund Municipality[13]
Shares border with
Bergen Municipality, Radøy Municipality, Lindås Municipality, Askøy Municipality[6][7][8][9]
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Meland Municipality da Meland ja メランド ro Comuna Meland ru Меланн sv Meland kommun sv Melands kommun zh 梅蘭
🔖 Identifiers · 17
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Meland - Eldsfjelet og Rosslandspollen.JPG ↗
Bergen byleksikon ID
1424262
Freebase ID
/m/0186y8
GNS Unique Feature ID
-270497
GeoNames ID
3146170
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
meland
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0470047
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Meland_-_tidligere_kommune, Meland
INaturalist place ID
40144
KulturNav-ID
f4492e46-b643-465e-8381-2c04806808e6
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Meland_kommune
MusicBrainz area ID
d66cb377-8746-46ae-b607-acd91f4f907b
Show all 17 identifiers +5
Norwegian municipality number
1256
OpenStreetMap relation ID
404148
SSR place name number
206148
Topic's main category
Category:Meland
Who's on First ID
1159297633

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 14
Frekhaug, Krossneset, Holme, Nordhordland Bridge, Holsnøy, Herdlefjorden, Flatøy, Hagelsund Bridge +6 more
Shares border with 4
Askøy Municipality, Lindås Municipality, Radøy Municipality, Bergen Municipality
← Shares border with 4
Askøy Municipality, Lindås Municipality, Radøy Municipality, Bergen Municipality
People born here 2
Lise Klaveness, Narve Bjørgo
Capital 1
Frekhaug
Country 1
Norway
Language used 1
Nynorsk
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Hordaland
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 1
Alver Municipality
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Replaced by 1
Alver Municipality
← Capital of 1
Frekhaug
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Hordaland
← Replaces 1
Alver Municipality
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  1. 14w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Official website → http://www.meland.kommune.no/
    Separated from → Alversund Municipality
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Meland
    + 32 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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