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Ulstein Municipality

municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Organization municipality_of_norway Q493961
Ulstein Municipality
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Facts

24 properties
Instance of
municipality of Norway, organization[5]
Inception
1837[13]
Country
Norway[3]
Official website
www.ulstein.kommune.no[15]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 62.356°, 5.854°
Area
0.11 (0–256.6, n=26)[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]
Capital
Ulsteinvik[6]
Demonym
[[Ulsteining]], ulsteining, ulsteinvikar[33][34][35]
Employees
+1148[24]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Ulstein kommune
Head of government
Jan Berset, Knut Erik Engh[4]
Industry
general public administration activities[12]
Language used
Nynorsk
Legal form
kommune[26]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Møre og Romsdal[2]
Main regulatory text
Act relating to municipalities and county authorities[11]
Native label
Ulstein[36]
Number of households
208 (208–3.5k, n=6)[27][28][29][30][31][32]
Office held by head of government
mayor of Ulstein[25]
Official language
Nynorsk[7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory
Population
9.0k (8.4k–9.0k, n=8)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Shares border with
Hareid, Herøy Municipality, Giske Municipality[8][9][10]
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change, boundary change[14]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 17
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q493961
Freebase ID
/m/0188pq
GNS Unique Feature ID
-284991
GeoNames ID
3133350
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Ulstein
INaturalist place ID
40195
KulturNav-ID
002dddbf-adc3-4900-aec7-f3102c70d69d
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Ulstein_kommune
MusicBrainz area ID
b5783569-ede7-4188-adaa-6e6ea394c1f5
Norwegian municipality number
1516
Norwegian organisation number
964979456
OpenStreetMap relation ID
406865
Show all 17 identifiers +5
SSR place name number
267913
Topic's main category
Category:Ulstein
Who's on First ID
1159297271
X (Twitter) username
ulsteinkommune
Yale LUX ID
place/449dd052-97a0-4844-8998-21428f78a78c

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 13
Ulsteinvik, Eiksund Tunnel, IL Hødd, Hareidlandet, Haddal, Eiksund Bridge, Rovdefjorden, Sundgota +5 more
People born here 3
Audun Garshol, Øystein Runde, Sigvald Hasund
Shares border with 3
Herøy Municipality, Hareid, Giske Municipality
← Shares border with 3
Herøy Municipality, Hareid, Giske Municipality
← Headquarters location 2
Ulstein Group, Kleven Verft
← Separated from 2
Hareid, Vartdal Municipality
Capital 1
Ulsteinvik
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Ulstein
Country 1
Norway
Instance of 1
municipality of Norway
Language used 1
Nynorsk
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Møre og Romsdal
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
Topic's main category 1
Category:Ulstein
← Capital of 1
Ulsteinvik
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Ulstein
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Ulstein
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Møre og Romsdal
← Twinned administrative body 1
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Summary

Ulstein Municipality is a municipality of Norway[1].

Related Entities

Norway WikiProject Govdirectory

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . ulstein.kommune.no. ulstein.kommune.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . sprakradet.no. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [38] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [39] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [40] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [41] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  41. [42] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  42. [43] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  45. [46] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  46. [47] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  47. [48] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  48. [49] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  49. [50] ↑ . Area statistics for Norway 2020. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10d ago · Ajarmund · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Legal form → kommune
    Norwegian organisation number → 964979456
    Official language → Nynorsk
    Employees → {'amount': '+1148'}
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||7 */ kommuner ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/386bb0bd7fa|details]])"
  2. 17d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Norway
    Capital → Ulsteinvik
    Language used → Nynorsk
    Inception → +1837-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ source for demonym, source for administrative centre from Store norske leksikon ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot 2|OKA bot"
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