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Volda Municipality

municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Organization municipality_of_norway Q488445
Volda Municipality
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Facts

24 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Norway, organization[5]
Official website
www.volda.kommune.no[19]
Legal form
kommune[30]

Status and dates

Inception
1837[16]

Location

Country
Norway[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 62.147°, 6.068°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Møre og Romsdal[2]

Industry and activity

Industry
general public administration activities[15]

Financials

Employees
+2102[28]
More facts +15
Area
876.9 (0.08–876.9, n=15)[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]
Capital
Volda[6]
Demonym
volding, volding[37]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Volda kommune
Head of government
Arild Iversen, Jørgen Amdam, Sølvi Dimmen[4]
Highest point
Kvitegga[17]
Language used
Nynorsk
Main regulatory text
Act relating to municipalities and county authorities[14]
Number of households
629 (177–4.7k, n=6)[31][32][33][34][35][36]
Office held by head of government
mayor of Volda[29]
Official language
Nynorsk[7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory
Population
11k (9.0k–11k, n=8)[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 9,037 · 10,473 · 10,781 · 10,809 · 10,960 GeoNames 6,433 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with
Ørsta Municipality, Hornindal, Eid, Vanylven, Herøy Municipality, Stranda Municipality, Stryn Municipality, Stad Municipality[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change, boundary change, boundary change, boundary change, boundary change[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en Volda Municipality da Volda Kommune de Gemeinde Volda es Volda fa وولدا he וולדה ja ヴォルダ ro Comuna Volda ru Волда sv Volda kommun zh 沃尔达 zh 沃爾達
🔖 Identifiers · 26
ISNI
0000000404625737
VIAF cluster ID
241949062
GND ID
4286505-0
BabelNet ID
01022891n
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q488445
Freebase ID
/m/0188qd
GNS Unique Feature ID
-287084
GeoNames ID
3131447
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3131447 GND (DNB) 3131449 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
volda
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0474297
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Volda
INaturalist place ID
40198
Show all 26 identifiers +14
KulturNav-ID
8e12bd3c-3d2c-46b9-be90-e6915fab7951
Lex ID
Volda
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Volda_kommune
MusicBrainz area ID
d81abc02-a6e6-48b2-9a94-fd8ff32cde87
Norwegian municipality number
1519, 1577
Norwegian organisation number
939760946
OpenStreetMap relation ID
406861
Quora topic ID
Volda
Ringgold ID
196911
SSR place name number
814107
Topic's main category
Category:Volda
Who's on First ID
1527971105
X (Twitter) username
Voldakommune
Yale LUX ID
place/03aac096-807d-4388-9aa6-7320da3da24e

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 28
Hornindalsvatnet, Eiksund Tunnel, Grodås, Volda, Hornindalsrokken, Jakta, Dalsfjord Church, Folkestad +20 more
Shares border with 8
Ørsta Municipality, Herøy Municipality, Stranda Municipality, Stryn Municipality, Vanylven, Eid, Hornindal, Stad Municipality
← Shares border with 8
Ørsta Municipality, Herøy Municipality, Stranda Municipality, Stryn Municipality, Vanylven, Eid, Hornindal, Stad Municipality
← Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 2
Hornindal, Dalsfjord Municipality
← Merged into 2
Hornindal, Dalsfjord Municipality
← Separated from 2
Ørsta Municipality, Dalsfjord Municipality
Capital 1
Volda
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:Volda
← Capital of 1
Volda
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Volda
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Møre og Romsdal
← Shipping port 1
Saga Siglar
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Summary

Volda Municipality is a municipality of Norway[1].

Related Entities

Møreforsking Norway WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . volda.kommune.no. volda.kommune.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . regjeringen.no. regjeringen.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  27. [28] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  36. [37] ↑ . sprakradet.no. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [39] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  50. [51] ↑ . 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. 14d ago · Ajarmund · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Legal form → kommune
    Industry → general public administration activities
    Instance of → municipality of Norway, organization
    Official language → Nynorsk
    + 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. 21d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Norway
    Topic's main category → Category:Volda
    Capital → Volda
    Language used → Nynorsk
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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