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Municipality in Vestland, Norway
Stord is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland. Stord is sometimes called "Norway in miniature" since it has such a variety of landscapes: coastline, fjords, forests, agricultural land, and mountain areas. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Leirvik, which is also the largest town in the municipality and the whole region of Sunnhordland. Leirvik was declared a town in 1997. Other population centres in the municipality include the large village of Sagvåg and the smaller villages of Litlabø and Grov. The 144-square-kilometre (56 sq mi) municipality is the 316th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Stord is the 68th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 18,759. The municipality's population density is 136.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (354/sq mi) and its population has increased by 6.8% over the previous 10-year period. .... Learn more at Wikipedia
An extensive tunnel and bridge system, the Triangle Link, connected Stord to the mainland on 27 December 2000 and to the neighboring island of Bømlo on 30 April 2001. The bridges involved are the Bømla Bridge and Stord Bridge and the tunnel is the Bømlafjord Tunnel. The airport in Stord is Stord Airport, Sørstokken, is located northwest of Sagvåg on the Sørstokken peninsula. On 10 October 2006, Atlantic Airways Flight 670 skidded off the runway at the airport. Four people died.
| Name | Stord |
|---|---|
| Long Name | Stord, Norway |
| Region | Hordaland |
| Country | Norway |
| Map | Open Map |
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