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Rennesøy Municipality

former municipality in Rogaland, Norway
AdministrativeArea former_municipality_of_norway Q494045

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
former municipality of Norway
Official website
www.rennesoy.kommune.no[14]

Location

Country
Norway[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 59.101°, 5.732°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Rogaland[2]
Located in/on physical feature
North Sea[12]
Shares border with
Stavanger, Randaberg Municipality, Kvitsøy Municipality, Finnøy, Bokn Municipality[6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
0.16 (0–215.3, n=14)[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]
Population
+4856[15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 4,856 GeoNames 3,888 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +11
Capital
Vikevåg[5]
Demonym
rennesøybu, rennesøybu[23]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
December 31, 2019[11]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Rennesøy kommune[36]
Head of government
Dagny Sunnanå Hausken[4]
Language used
Bokmål, Nynorsk[37][38]
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
Stavanger[39]
Merged into
Stavanger[40]
Number of households
24 (24–1.9k, n=6)[17][18][19][20][21][22]
Office held by head of government
mayor of Rennesøy[16]
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change, boundary change[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Rennesøy Municipality da Rennesøy Kommune de Rennesöy de Gemeinde Rennesøy de Rennesoy en-gb Rennesøy fi Rennesöy fr Rennesoy id Rennesoy id Rennesoey it Rennesoy nl Rennesoy pl Rennesoey pl Rennesoy pt Rennesoy ro Comuna Rennesøy ru Реннесёй sv Rennesøy kommun zh 伦内绥
🔖 Identifiers · 15
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Askjesundet bru.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0186jp
GNS Unique Feature ID
-275341
GeoNames ID
3141965
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Rennesøy, Rennesøy_-_tidligere_kommune
INaturalist place ID
40309
KulturNav-ID
32d48a25-5cd2-40b1-8620-124564d210cb
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Rennesøy_kommune
MusicBrainz area ID
59543e47-198a-4c7a-9a05-5359526c8b2c
NRK topic ID
1.251883
Norwegian municipality number
1142
OpenStreetMap relation ID
405679
Show all 15 identifiers +3
SSR place name number
631872
Topic's main category
Category:Rennesøy
Who's on First ID
1159296985

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 16
Boknafjord, Vikevåg, Åmøy, Østhusvik, Bru, Mosterøy, Byfjorden, Rennesøy +8 more
Shares border with 5
Stavanger, Kvitsøy Municipality, Bokn Municipality, Randaberg Municipality, Finnøy
← Shares border with 5
Stavanger, Kvitsøy Municipality, Bokn Municipality, Randaberg Municipality, Finnøy
Language used 2
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Capital 1
Vikevåg
Country 1
Norway
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Rogaland
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 1
Stavanger
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Located in/on physical feature 1
North Sea
Merged into 1
Stavanger
People who died here 1
Lars Ramndal
← Capital of 1
Vikevåg
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Rogaland
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Summary

Rennesøy Municipality is a former municipality of Norway[1].

Related Entities

Norway

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Befolkning, 1. januar 2016. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. 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] ↑ . sprakradet.no. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  26. [27] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  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.
  35. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [40] ↑ . 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.rennesoy.kommune.no/
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Rennesøy
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished date → +2019-12-31T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → —
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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