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Os Municipality

former municipality in Hordaland, Norway
Organization municipality_of_norway Q493936

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Norway, former municipality of Norway[5]
Official website
www.os.hordaland.no[15]

Status and dates

Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
December 31, 2019[13]
Replaced by
Bjørnafjorden Municipality[18]

Location

Country
Norway[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 60.227°, 5.476°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Hordaland[1]
More facts +13
Area
0.32 (0–245.5, n=14)[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]
Capital
Osøyro[6]
Demonym
osing, osing[25]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Os kommune i Hordaland[40]
Head of government
Terje Søviknes, Marie Lunde Bruarøy, Terje Søviknes[3][4]
Language used
Nynorsk[41]
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
Bjørnafjorden Municipality[42]
Named after
Os[12]
Number of households
247 (247–8.3k, n=6)[19][20][21][22][23][24]
Office held by head of government
mayor of Os, Hordaland[17]
Population
+19742[16]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 19,742 GeoNames 16,437 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with
Bergen Municipality, Samnanger, Fusa Municipality, Tysnes Municipality, Austevoll Municipality[7][8][9][10][11]
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change, boundary change[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Os Municipality cs Os ja オス (ノルウェー) pl Os w Hordaland pt Os i Hordaland ro Comuna Os ru Ус sv Os kommun sv Os kommune zh 烏斯 zh-hans 乌斯
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
147726796
Library of Congress authority ID
n78057543
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Osøyro III.jpg ↗
Bergen byleksikon ID
1424267
Freebase ID
/m/0186v6
GeoNames ID
6453362
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Os_-_Hordaland, Os_-_tidligere_kommune_i_Hordaland, Os_-_tidlegare_kommune_i_Hordaland
INaturalist place ID
40148
KulturNav-ID
e93734b2-e0ae-4807-b936-33bdccb13801
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Os_kommune_(Hordaland)
MusicBrainz area ID
e95ed6c5-e95f-4986-92b8-c0bf56a11d2e
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007547848405171
Show all 17 identifiers +5
Norwegian municipality number
1243
OpenStreetMap relation ID
404162
SSR place name number
935898
Topic's main category
Category:Os, Hordaland
Who's on First ID
1159297561

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 21
Osøyro, Søfteland, Søvik, Bjørnafjorden, Hagavik, Lysøya, Nordvik, Fusafjorden +13 more
Shares border with 5
Austevoll Municipality, Tysnes Municipality, Samnanger, Fusa Municipality, Bergen Municipality
← Shares border with 5
Austevoll Municipality, Tysnes Municipality, Samnanger, Fusa Municipality, Bergen Municipality
People born here 4
Kjersti Plätzer, Terje Søviknes, Marius Neset, Margit Tøsdal
Head of government 2
Terje Søviknes, Terje Søviknes
← Separated from 2
Samnanger, Fusa Municipality
Capital 1
Osøyro
Country 1
Norway
Instance of 1
municipality of Norway
Language used 1
Nynorsk
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Hordaland
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 1
Bjørnafjorden Municipality
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Replaced by 1
Bjørnafjorden Municipality
Topic's main category 1
Category:Os, Hordaland
← Capital of 1
Osøyro
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Os, Hordaland
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Hordaland
← Headquarters location 1
Os TF
← Replaces 1
Bjørnafjorden Municipality
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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.os.hordaland.no/
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Os, Hordaland
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished date → +2019-12-31T00:00:00Z
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