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Vanylven

municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Organization municipality_of_norway Q493992

Facts

24 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Norway, organization[5]
Official website
www.vanylven.kommune.no[17]
Legal form
kommune[28]

Status and dates

Inception
1837[14]

Location

Country
Norway[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 62.101°, 5.558°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Møre og Romsdal[2]

Industry and activity

Industry
general public administration activities[13]

Financials

Employees
+757[26]
More facts +15
Area
1.36 (0–483.6, n=26)[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]
Capital
Fiskåbygd[6]
Demonym
vanylving, vanylving[35]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Vanylven kommune
Head of government
Jan Helgøy, Lena M. Landsverk Sande[4]
Highest point
Blæja[15]
Language used
Nynorsk
Main regulatory text
Act relating to municipalities and county authorities[12]
Number of households
53 (3–1.4k, n=6)[29][30][31][32][33][34]
Office held by head of government
mayor of Vanylven[27]
Official language
Nynorsk[7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory
Population
3.0k (3.0k–3.3k, n=8)[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Shares border with
Sande Municipality, Herøy Municipality, Volda Municipality, Eid, Vågsøy Municipality, Selje, Stad Municipality[8][9][10][11]
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change, boundary change[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Vanylven ar فانيلفان da Vanylven Kommune fa ونیلون ru Ванюльвен sv Vanylven kommun sv Vanylvens kommun zh 瓦尼尔文 zh 瓦尼爾文
🔖 Identifiers · 17
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Vanylvsfjord from eidsaa.jpg ↗
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q493992
Freebase ID
/m/0188ly
GNS Unique Feature ID
-285703
GeoNames ID
3132715
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Vanylven
INaturalist place ID
40196
KulturNav-ID
9e5f50ed-7b9a-4d42-9d18-0acd7ca13012
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Vanylven_kommune
MusicBrainz area ID
61de4932-ce69-4d5c-907a-9bd04318e5f3
Norwegian municipality number
1511
Norwegian organisation number
964978662
Show all 17 identifiers +5
OpenStreetMap relation ID
406862
SSR place name number
388548
Topic's main category
Category:Vanylven Municipality
Who's on First ID
1159297537
X (Twitter) username
vanylven

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 14
Fiskåbygd, Åheim, Rovdefjorden, Vanylvsfjorden, Åram Church, Myklebost, Rovde Church, Saint Jetmund Church +6 more
Shares border with 7
Volda Municipality, Herøy Municipality, Vågsøy Municipality, Sande Municipality, Eid, Selje, Stad Municipality
← Shares border with 7
Volda Municipality, Herøy Municipality, Vågsøy Municipality, Sande Municipality, Eid, Selje, Stad Municipality
People born here 3
Maria Parr, Jacob Vidnes, Marie Lovise Widnes
Capital 1
Fiskåbygd
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:Vanylven Municipality
← Capital of 1
Fiskåbygd
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Vanylven Municipality
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Møre og Romsdal
← Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 1
Syvde Municipality
← Merged into 1
Syvde Municipality
← Place of publication 1
Synste Møre
← Separated from 1
Syvde Municipality
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Summary

Vanylven is a municipality of Norway[1].

Related Entities

Norway Vanylven FK WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . vanylven.kommune.no. vanylven.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. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . kartverket.no. Retrieved . kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . sprakradet.no. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [37] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: 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.
  43. [44] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  44. [45] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  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.

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. 13d ago · Ajarmund · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Legal form → kommune
    Norwegian organisation number → 964978662
    Official language → Nynorsk
    Employees → {'amount': '+757'}
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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  2. 20d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Norway
    Capital → Fiskåbygd
    Language used → Nynorsk
    Inception → +1837-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 30 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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