Municipality:Stavanger

Stavanger
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The municipality of Stavanger in the region of Vestlandet
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Coat of arms
CountryNorway Norge flagga.png
RegionVestlandet
Number of zones70
Maximum PPH70
Last updated2021-08-29


Stavanger is a municipality in the region of Vestlandet (Western Norway) in Norway. The municipality has about 144,000 inhabitants and is located in Rogaland county.

Stavanger is Norway's fourth largest city municipality with 142,034 inhabitants (1 January 2020).

Nickname: Oljebyen, The oil capital

Location

Stavanger borders the municipalities Randaberg, Sandnes, Sola and in the north to Bokn.

Urban areas

The urban area Stavanger is the municipality's central town. It forms the part of the urban area Stavanger / Sandnes that belongs to Stavanger municipality in Rogaland county.

Stavanger (together with Sandnes) is Norway's third most populous urban area with its 197,892 inhabitants (1 January 2011) after Oslo (839 423), Bergen (220 418), but before Trondheim (152 845).

The fact that the urban area has more inhabitants than the municipality is due to the fact that the urban area (the connected buildings) also consists of parts of the neighboring municipalities Sandnes, Randaberg and Sola.

Zones

There are 94 turf zones in Stavanger municipality, of which one is counted as a winner zone, one water zone, two train station zone, two monument zones, six holy zones, two bridge zones and one ruin zone.

The most taken zone is SjøfartMuseum which is located at the Stavanger Maritime Museum in central Stavanger.

Year in parentheses indicates year of creation.

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Other zones

Updated: 2023-08-14

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